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Matt Steck

After school, I attended Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton before being shipped overseas to Oxford on a full scholarship. I was bored with my studies and I dropped out so that I could become a hull janitor in the U.S. Navy. I eventually graduated to poop-deck swab when I jumped overboard and swam to a nearby island where I became king and ruler of the native population. I engaged in an ill-advised war against the neighboring island and my empire was wiped out. As a vanquished king, I lived in Paris for six years where I met my wife Saskia. We were wed in a little ceremony on top of Mt. Eiger in Switzerland.

After Saskia and I married, I became an astronaut in the Russian Space Program. That didn't last long!

Can't wait to see you all at the big reunion. I have a second job working at the Wynkoop serving hors d'oeuvres, so I'll be there! - please tip your server!

and now, my favorite poem:

I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud


That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine


And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they


Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:
I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie


In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).

Put that in your pipe and smoke it! I memorized the whole thing, so if you want a reading at the reunion - just say so! I even developed an interpretive dance to go with it! My friend and yours, Joe Welch, usually plays the bongos as I flit and flutter about.

Update! Denver Public Schools blows (not South of course)! I had to kick them to the curb. I am now the main man at Vail Resorts. "Veni, Vidi, Shreddi" is my new motto. I still have my part-time job at the Wynkoop, so keep the tips flowin'.

Peace!

Ron Paul in '08!

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