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\"\"<\/a>Dave is in Yaounde, getting ready to fly home to California, starting Sunday evening.\u00a0 He was pleased to be able to help out in many ways, but I think this might have been his favorite job.\u00a0 He put back together this table saw that the Turk family and Roy & I had carried up in pieces, 50 lb. pieces, from South Africa.\u00a0 Roy & our son, Sam, couldn\u2019t pass up the deal on this sturdy old machine, and Luke Turk kindly took it apart and bundled it into jet plane acceptable baggage.\u00a0 I think there must have been at least 7 pieces carried up to Gamboula!\u00a0 Roy has holes in a couple of his t shirts because I mistakenly thought the tshirts would protect our suitcase from the bag of bolts and miscellaneous joint metal!<\/p>\n

Thanks, Dave, for coming and helping and being such an encouragement.\u00a0 We’ll miss all your stories!<\/p>\n

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