Hil's post upthread has now got me curious about that Havana Nights Dirty Dancing "sequel"--is it set in 1959 only? Because if so, my new BIL's sister was telling me what life was like in Havana those first few years after Castro took over, and it was initially not a big communist coup. At first.

But, by 1962 (post Bay of Pigs), everything was getting bad very quickly, and she and her husband were getting pressured to move away from their house, which just happened to be on the same block as the house of Castro's mistress, so he was always coming for a nookie break. The entire block was getting the "move away from our leader" vibe from his security squad, so they decided to head to the States. They got out on the last ship that legally left Havana for Florida, as did Jorge (my BIL, who was 3 y.o. at the time) and his parents.

Hil's post upthread has now got me curious about that Havana Nights Dirty Dancing "sequel"--is it set in 1959 only? Because if so, my new BIL's sister was telling me what life was like in Havana those first few years after Castro took over, and it was initially not a big communist coup. At first.

Yeah, it just takes place over a few months, ending like a week after Castro took over. But there are several characters who are just referred to as "revolutionaries" without any sort of mention of what this means, other than "You killed my father; prepare to die."

They got out on the last ship that legally left Havana for Florida, as did Jorge (my BIL, who was 3 y.o. at the time) and his parents.

That just gave me goosbumps. I used to eat at a restaurant owned by a lady who was on the last helicopter out of Saigon.

My grandmother left Germany a week before Kristallnacht. (Her mother's cousin was married to Karl Laemmle: [link]

Laemmle remained connected to his home town of Laupheim throughout his life, by financial support and also by sponsoring hundreds of Jews from Laupheim and Württemberg to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the U.S. (which meant paying both emigration and immigration fees), thus saving them from the Holocaust. In order to ensure and facilitate their immigration Laemmle contacted American authorities, members of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of State, Cordell Hull

If we moved out, the landlady could easily double it.

More than that. It'd go for between 2200 and 2400.

...so, when you accidentally e-mail a large group of people the same message four times, do you send another message to apologize and explain that you weren't trying to annoy them into submission, or just leave it be?

I appreciate it when someone apologizes for an email error.

do you send another message to apologize and explain that you weren't trying to annoy them into submission, or just leave it be?

I think your mea culpa should have the subject line: Your Big Spikey C*ck - Grow It!

I appreciate the apology when that happens. And it does.

why, I apologized for sending out a blank email just yesterday.