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January 1988

We Who Have Never Met

It started when I was informed that I was to go to Guatemala as one of the two World Service Meeting delegates from the U.S. and Canada. But during my drinking years, I had been convicted for smuggling drugs across the U.S./Mexico border, and I had been told by the federal government, "Don't even think about getting a passport," so I hadn't. Of course, it's difficult to travel internationally without a passport, so I just crossed my fingers, sent in my fifty bucks, and first thing you know, I get a passport in the mail.

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