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<td width="82%"><font size="4" style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif">I should save this UU joke for our annual pilgrimage, but I probably won't be able to remember or find it then, so.... <br></font>
<p><font size="4" style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif">"I told somebody I was a Unitarian once, and they said. 'Isn't
that that thing in the science museum with the stars in the ceiling
and...' 'No that's a planetarium.'"-- Leanna Balloffet
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Meeting ID: 926 6764 3995 </span></font>
<font style="white-space:normal"><span style="line-height:110%;color:black">Passcode: OMWed12.</span></font></font></font>
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