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> > Hmm. Maybe it's seven minutes, which would make more sense. That would make the time lost to smoking to be 15 years. (3 months times 60)
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> I wasn't going to mention it, but since you did, I'll agree. I was thinking seven minutes was what I remembered.
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> For what it's worth, I already had a picture of you as about 25 or 30. The Chinese part caught me by surprise too. When I first moved to East Tennessee(1959), people would stare at Asian people. Now there are so many here, they don't even get noticed. Twenty years ago, we only had two Mexicans in town. Now half the people speak Spanish. The change has been good for the whole community. Most of the Mexicans work in the mushroom industry, but the Asians tend to be professional people and a lot of them work in the government think-tank at nearby Oak Ridge.
> Howard

Interesting. There aren't many Asians in Richmond, where I live; I think I know like half of them personally. There aren't many Mexicans where I live, either, but there were so many in El Paso, TX, where I used to live, that Spanish was a required class, even in elementary school, and it seemed over two-thirds of the people spoke Spanish, while I didn't meet a single other Asian there. I also used to live in Arlington, TX and Raleigh, NC, both of which seemed to be mostly populated by Caucasians (sp.?), but I do seem to remember Raleigh having a substantial Asian population. The other U.S. city in which I lived was Oklahoma City, OK, but I moved from there when I was 5, so I don't remember very much. The only other city that I have lived in for a prolonged period of time was Shenyang, China, from which I moved when I was 2, so you can imagine I don't remember much from there, either. However, it's safe to assume that virtually all of the permanent residents of that city are Chinese.

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