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This entry is really another flashback prompted by walking around the UC San Diego campus and seeing the following building each day on my way home from school here in Yaounde.<\/p>\n

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The hairdressers that reminded me of long ago days at UCSD,with lots of laughter and fun<\/p><\/div>\n

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This building (a shipping container converted to a business) started me on my search for Hortense.\u00a0 Hortense originally came to UCSD in about 1978 and made ocassional apperances.\u00a0 \u00a0So I began an internet search for her.\u00a0 At first I could only find this modern replica – which did not do her justice<\/p>\n

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A modern "pretender"<\/p><\/div>\n

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But after quite a long Google Image search I finally saw this glimpse of the “real Hortense”<\/p>\n

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a glimpse<\/p><\/div>\n

Only the smallest glimpse let me know I was almost there.<\/p>\n

And only a short while later ….her she is …found in all her bridal splendor.<\/p>\n

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No longer lost!<\/p><\/div>\n

So have a happy walk back down memory lane,\u00a0 all those 1970’s and 80’s brides for whom she graced your wedding shower tables.\u00a0 I think and pray for you each day as her namesake smiles down at me.<\/p>\n

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