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I'm Baack!

• http://www.ncc-1776.org, by L. Neil Smith

My own wife Cathy and I preceeded them by a couple of days. As flus go, this was a bad one. I couldn't sit at my desk for more than ten minutes at a time; my neck and shoulders got peculiarly tired and sore. As I lay in bed, afflicted by nausea, coughing fits, plain old exhaustion, and even worse, I remembered that I'm an old guy now, and that the flu is supposed to be especially hard on old guys (also that I never got to meet my grandfather because of the "Spanish Influenza"; he died, not an old guy at all, at an Army Camp near Waco, Texas, in 1918).

Now here I am, horribly behind on my two current novels, Ares and Only The Young Die Good, and with several hundred e-mail messages to contend with that I'll be answering over the next few days. I abjure you (look it up) to be patient with me. All the time that I was sick, I wanted to write about two things especially: living politically with Donald J. Trump; and observing his unique style at news conferences.


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