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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gabrielle, it seems that you do not own this staff,
it owns you. Perhaps one of the great packing dilema rituals is this beginning
to learn to trust only in God which is what I think pilgrimage is
about?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shells? I thought that the shell was a token of
having been to Compostela so that you would be recognised as a pilgrim in your
return (no cheap filght in medieval times!). Has it become a club
badge?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The foot and mouth (hoof and mouth in USA?) remind
me of the old pilgrims who were surrounded by plagues and dangers for which they
had no remedy. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>