By Bill Lee

I recently wrote a WHAT IS LIFE? column.  Mostly it was about how unpredictable life can be (one ‘danged’ thing after another), one day you are sailing serenely, the other you are mired in deep depression because of some “by chance” circumstance. 
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I assume the location of the Hamer Cotton Mill as it was known when it was organized in 1903 was determined by one of the principal shareholders, Robert Pickett Hamer, Jr. who owned the land on which the plant was constructed. 
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Gun safety is of paramount importance today and rightly so.  But handling guns in past generations was by comparison, relaxed to say the least.
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Presently she is reaching for her 97th birthday, a life filled with challenges that she has had to overcome which she did many times and successfully.  
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Probably the #1 New Year’s resolution is to lose weight and as someone has said, it is the one that you can use next year and the one after that. 
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This is a test.  After reading the 3 situations reported below, which in your opinion would have received the greatest joy from having received the stated prize?
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When I grew up there was, to me, no such thing as a drive in much less a fast food business. 
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Love will find a way.
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In the Bible, Mark 13:32-33, Jesus reminds his followers that “…no one… know(s) when the time (end of the world) is.” But this does not stop people from offering their beliefs about this cataclysmic occurrence.
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Nothing man has ever made or will make can remotely touch the wonder of the human mind. 
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There are veterans who have served in our nation’s wars who only reluctantly offer comments on their war time experiences and for many, rightly so since some have had experiences that are best forgotten.
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