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 Greetings.  Most unfortunately, some of these blog posts have formatting problems - there's no indentation or paragraph separation.  I'm trying to fix this.  If you have any suggestions, please email me at thedeftpen@gmail.com.


Thank you.

Lawrence Reichard

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