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James Gordon Tanner
Husband, father, grandfather, brother, scientist, scallywag. Born June 11, 1931, in St. Thomas, Ont. Died March 29 in Victoria of pneumonia and dementia, aged 77.
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Signing off on Married Me
Getting out of the name change turned out to be harder than getting out of the marriage
I don't want to catch a wayward bus
I've been to a few too many memorial services lately. It makes you realize life's big surprise: It's short
My genes are Dutch, but I am not
Visiting my parents' birthplaces was unsettling. I felt like a stranger in a land I'd always thought of as home
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