Where did you receive your Covid vaccination shot?

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63. Well, there certainly is precedent for THAT!!

During law school, students are expected to clerk for judges or firms. But my daughter was in law school during the Cheneybush recession, so she volunteered for the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal in Sierra Leone (as in Ebola!). Crazy kid, thought she was immortal. She got some deadly infection in Senegal and was half dead by the time she got back to Sierra Leone. She told us she got some antibiotics from a local Sierra Leone doctor but they weren't helping. DUH! The locals sell the real medicine on the black market and sell sugar pills instead. I demanded she go to the UN doctor. She was reluctant to bother him, but I insisted. I had no choice, as I had no idea where to find her even I were to make the trip myself. She finally did with her last strength, and recovered. She came back as if nothing had ever gone wrong, went on to complete law school at a "second tier" school in the USA, got sneered at by the Harvard Law and Yale Law grads, and within 6 years became the youngest partner ever at the Frankfurt arm of the top New York firm of White and Case.

A friend of mine, who is unfortunately no longer with us, once decided he wanted to broaden his knowledge, and entered law school at age 50. He didn't need to, he just wanted to. He was a brilliant, very soft-spoken (but very humorous) man, and I enjoyed his presence immensely. A film was once made about his time in the army as a radio announcer in Vietnam, and the portrayal of him (by Robin Williams, of all people) could not have been more UNLIKE my friend if they had tried. The character portrayed in the film would never thought to enter law school at age 50. My friend did just that.

Tell THAT to your niece!