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title: 'Have I Really Been Gone That Long?'
date: '2007-08-20T17:04:32-04:00'
permalink: /have-i-really-been-gone-that-long/
tags:
    - 'random thoughts'
---

I just got an email message from MoveOn.org, with the subject line “Vigil to End the War in Claremont,” and for a few seconds longer than I’d like to admit, I was mightily confused. We have a movie theater now, and several new restaurants, but those were all the developments of which I was aware.