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<DIV>Just saw this in the news:</DIV>
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href="http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/886379-flying-shark-spotted-7-000ft-in-the-sky-shocks-airline-pilot">http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/886379-flying-shark-spotted-7-000ft-in-the-sky-shocks-airline-pilot</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Wonder if the pilot had read Gene Wolfe...</DIV>
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<DIV>"<SPAN class=commentBody data-jsid="text">‎"He is out there, swimming 
beside the plane. I watched him for a minute or more, until he disappeared into 
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<DIV><SPAN class=commentBody data-jsid="text">Mind you, as soon as I began to 
write this, I noticed that the article says that these Air Swimmers are a 
popular Christmas gift.  And "The Tree Is My Hat" has to do with a 
character named "Mary Christmas."  And ... naw.  Wolfe can't have had 
this tradition in mind, can he?</SPAN></DIV>
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data-jsid="text">John</SPAN></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>