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   -=> Ward Dossche wrote to Shaun Buzza <=-   
      
    WD> I'm a Dutch speaking citizen of a tri-lingual country and I take pride   
    WD> in knowing the language of the other side well enough so that when we   
    WD> meet in the middle a decent conversation can be had.   
      
   When I was six years old (in the mid 70s), my family and I were living in   
   the tiny German town of Buren in Westphalia, Germany, near a NATO post.  It   
   was decided that I had to have my tonsils, adenoids, and some polyps in my   
   nasal canal removed.   
      
   I was sent to a Flemish-speaking hospital where they did excellent work on   
   me but they had to send me home early as I refused to eat because I was very   
   homesick.  My mother tells me that the Flemish staff went out of their way   
   to secure American brand food for me, such as Jell-O and Campbell's Bean and   
   Bacon Soup but I refused to eat.   
      
   I do not have a lot of memories about that time but I do remember their   
   speaking Flemish and I tried to understand the best I could.   
      
   On a side note, I did later visit the Netherlands and some of my favorite   
   memories of that time were walking on a dyke, visiting working windmills,   
   and visiting Keukenhof.  I would like to visit Keukenhof again someday.   
      
   (If you don't know what Keukenhof is: https://keukenhof.nl/en/)   
      
   If I remember right, since you speak Dutch, you're from the northern part.   
      
   -- Sean   
      
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