Tuesday, March 1, 2016

CURRENT AND FORMER TEXANS AND OTHER AMERICANS WHO HAVE EACH ADVISED ME TO MOVE AWAY FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS, OR AWAY FROM TEXAS


In the period ever since the late summer of 1987, the following persons, listed below by city or state or multi-state region they each recommended to me, have each advised me to move away from Westlake Hills, Texas, away from Austin, Texas, or away from Texas, and to a cited U.S. city or U.S. state other than Westlake Hills, Austin, or Texas:

---QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS, OR NORTH QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS.
Cindy Ellison, a former classmate of mine at Stephen F. Austin High School, in 1987 or 1988, during an in-person meeting I had with her inside her parents' home in west Austin, emphatically advised me to move back to Quincy or north Quincy, Massachusetts. "If you have a very special involvement with someone in the Quincy area, I urge you to move back to that area and make yourself available for that individual," Cindy Ellison stated (approximate quote).

During a one-to-one legal consultation meeting I had several years ago with State Bar of Texas member attorney Rob V. Robertson inside his private law office in northwest Austin, a legal consultation for which Mr. Robertson was paid in full for his legal advice, that highly regarded private attorney stated to me, "Since the continuous noise pollution problem you complain about here in Austin began for you in June 1987 when you resided in Quincy, Massachusetts, I (attorney Rob Robertson) recommend that you visit Quincy, Mass., in order to then hire a private attorney based in Quincy to file a lawsuit for you that might quickly terminate that continuous noise pollution problem for you." (approximate quote).

---THE BOSTON AREA OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Tucker, an articulate Anglo male Westwood High School student and teenage coworker of mine inside Denny's Lakeline chain restaurant in the Austin area of Texas, volunteered to me in 2012 during a workshift for each of us as waiters for Denny's: "I (Tucker) recommend that you eventually move to the Boston area of Massachusetts---NOT to Minnesota. I (Tucker) feel very strongly that Massachusetts is a much better state for you than Minnesota" (approximate quote).

---SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.
During a one-to-one lunch meeting I had inside a Catfish Parlour restaurant this Tuesday, March 1, 2016, with James Willett, a former classmate of mine at Stephen F. Austin High School and the currently cited administrator of my own last will and testament, James volunteered to me that he strongly supports my cited goal of moving from Austin, Texas, to Salt Lake City, Utah. "Just about anyplace in the country would be a much cheaper place to live in than Austin is these days," James pointed out (approximate quote), with obvious exceptions to that being "New York City" and "San Francisco," he added. I have also mentioned to James that I feel that my drinking-alcohol-free and tobacco-free and illicit-drug-free and vigilant and law-abiding and clean-talking (no profanity by me in my everyday conversations with others) lifestyle would be a better social match to Salt Lake City's adult residents than to the significantly LESS wholesome adult residents of Austin, Texas. I have also mentioned to James that I myself have a strong Mormon heritage, through my beloved Father's side of my family tree; and that my father, Calvin McMillan, a native of Murray, Utah, was an Elder in the Mormon Church for many years.

--SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
During a 1988 joint personal visit to my parents' home in Westlake Hills, Texas, by Tres and Margaret Watson of Dallas, Margaret volunteered that she recommended that I move during that time period to the city of San Francisco, California.

During a 1988 or 1987 two-person lunch meeting I had in Austin inside a campus-area Chinese-style restaurant with University of Texas at Austin Study Skills Instructor Arthur Rauch, he volunteered to me that "If you were to move to San Francisco, California, it would be much better for your own intellectual development (sic)." (approximate quote, with the term 'intellectual development' being an exact quote).

One apartment-management-team-approved official roommate of mine at the Marquis-managed Camino Real Apartments near UT-Austin, Brian Jenkins, himself a college student at the University of Texas at Austin during that time period, volunteered to me in person inside our two-bedroom apartment unit in mid-1997 that he believed I should move from Austin, Texas, to San Francisco, California, he said.

Stephen B., an Outback Steakhouse Arboretum adult male coworker of mine in northwest Austin, politely volunteered to me inside that restaurant workplace for each of us several years ago: "If you do move away from Texas someday, San Francisco would be a better place for you than any Midwestern city. San Francisco would be a much more interesting city for you than Minneapolis" (approximate quote).

---THE BAY AREA OF NORTHERN CALIORNIA.
During an early 1990s local phone call I made from my Kensington Motor Lodge temporary apartment unit in east Austin to the south Austin home of my oldest brother, Kent Neal McMillan, and his wife, Sara, Kent volunteered to me: "The Bay Area of Northern California would be an ideal (social) climate for you." (approximate quote, with the word 'ideal' and 'climate' being an exact quote). The same oldest brother of mine, during a 1992 or 1993 long-distance phone call I made to his and his wife's south Austin home from Pampa, Texas, where I was employed full-time at that time as a reporter for the "Pampa Daily News", offered a significantly different perspective. In that phone conversation, Kent Neal McMillan volunteered to me from his end of the phone line inside his Austin home: "Your even having thoughts about the possibility of your moving from Texas to another U.S. state, could be regarded as a sign of mental illness in you" (approximate quote).

---ANYWHERE IN CALIFORNIA.
During a long-distance phone call I made in about 2001 from my efficiency rental apartment unit along Leon Street in Austin to former El Campo, Texas, resident Mike Kolcek of California, he politely volunteered to me from his family home that he recommends that I move from Texas to California. "The people of California would be much more tolerant toward you than Texans are" (approximate quote), Mike Kolcek politely volunteered.

During a late 1990s long-distance phone call I made from my rental efficiency apartment near UT-Austin's campus to a very nice female cousin of mine in California, Cathy Gardner (who during that period identified herself as "Kit" Gardner Bell, a married woman), Cousin Cathy volunteered to me from her end of the phone line: "It seems to me that the people of Texas (sic) do not want you to have any sex life or any romantic life at all" (approximate quote). Cousin Cathy then indicated in that same phone conversation that if I were to move away from Texas to another U.S. state, such as California, I would not face that type of statewide conflict with me by the people of that state.

---OREGON OR WASHINGTON STATE.
In 1994, during a period of employment for me as a full-time reporter at the "Winkler County News" in Kermit, Texas, Tim Hewitt, curator of the Presidential Museum in Odessa, emphatically advised me to move from west Texas to either Oregon or Washington State. "Either Oregon or Washington would be a much better place for you" (approximate quote), Tim Hewitt emphatically advised during polite in-person conversations I had with him in Odessa-area restaurants.

---COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO.
In 2004 or 2005 (?), my first-rate general manager and head work supervisor at Souper Salad Lakeline corporate-owned restaurant at Lakeline Mall in Austin, Texas, Ernie Motloch, enthusiastically stated to me during a workday for each of us inside that restaurant, that he recommends Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Colorado as a wonderful prospective new city or state of residence for me at some future date. Ernie also emphasized that if he himself had the opportunity to relocate through Souper Salad corporate headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, from his Austin-area store to the Souper Salad store in Colorado Springs, Colorado, he would gladly do so.

In the early or mid-1990s, my oldest brother, Kent Neal McMillan, stated to me on the telephone, during a long-distance phone call I made from West Texas to his and his wife's south Austin home, that Kent believes that Colorado would make a fine state in which to live. I believe that he may have been responding to a comment I myself made to him about the beautiful scenery of Colorado.

---PHOENIX, ARIZONA.
One very articulate female acquaintance of mine in the Austin area volunteered to me in 2015 that she recommends Phoenix, Arizona, as a very fine urban area for me to consider moving to, she indicated. I believe she also mentioned that Phoenix has a first-rate light-rail transit system---a major consideration for me in evaluating whether a metro area or city might be a good prospective new hometown for me.

---ANYWHERE IN NEW MEXICO.
During a mid-1990s long-distance phone call I made to her and her husband Kent Neal McMillan's south Austin home while I myself was residing alone in far West Texas near the New Mexico border, my sister-in-law, Sara McMillan, volunteered to me that "If I (Sara McMillan) had a career opportunity for myself in New Mexico, I would move there in a heartbeat!" (approximate quote, with the phrase 'in a heartbeat' being an exact verbatim quote). Mrs. Sara McMillan offered me that very enthusiastic statement about New Mexico after I mentioned to her in that phone call that I myself had either applied for or was considering applying for a new reporting job at a general-circulation newspaper in a small town in New Mexico.

---RENO, NEVADA.
Dan Knezek, a self-identified Michigan State University alumnus and personal friend of mine and former tennis partner of mine in Austin, sent me a friendly E-mail letter from his new state of Hawaii in 2007 in which he advised me to consider moving to the Reno area of Nevada, with Dan Knezek indicating that the cost of living in that urban area in Nevada would be lower for me than in the Austin area.

---ANYWHERE IN THE MIDWESTERN REGION OF THE UNITED STATES.
During a toll-free long-distance late 1995 or January 1996 phone call I made to reporter Victoria Loe Hicks of "The Dallas Morning News" news staff in Dallas, she volunteered to me the following personal advice: "If you were to move to the Midwest, it could all end a lot sooner" (approximate quote).

---A SMALL TOWN IN THE MIDWESTERN REGION OF THE U.S.
In a friendly E-mail letter to me earlier this century, columnist Greg Freeman of the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" daily newspaper volunteered in writing that I might make a first-rate story assignments editor for a small-town newspaper in the Midwestern region of the United States. He never elaborated on that informal written suggestion to me.

---A BIGGER METRO AREA SUCH AS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
Reporter Wes Davis of "The Daily Texan" student newspaper staff on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, began a 2001 telephone interview with me for a feature story about myself he planned to write, by asking me why I was living in the Austin area. He then added that someone with my apparent talent and intellect should move to a bigger metro area, and he then cited Chicago as one such metro area that he himself apparently recommended for me.

---MY OWN NATIVE STATE OF NEBRASKA.
One Nebraska native, Heather Johnson, herself a successful businesswoman in Austin, Texas, politely advised me in writing several years ago that I might want to move away from Austin, and relocate in a city or town that is friendlier toward me than Austin, she stated in writing. I believe Heather had indicated to me at various times, including during in-person meetings I had with her, that she also felt I might do well if I move to my own native state of Nebraska and pursue a career there. I don't recall whether she ever stated to me that she felt that my native city of Lincoln, Nebraska, would be the very best and most compatible city in Nebraska for me to relocate to.

In 1999, 2000, or 2001, Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns mailed to me a signed official letter from the Office of the Governor of that state. In that signed letter, Governor Johanns thanked me for numerous public-policy brainstorming letters of mine I had E-mailed or mailed to himself that were aimed at helping to boost the quality of life for as many Nebraskans as possible. Governor Johanns kindly emphasized to me in writing that my brainstorming letters to him had been significantly helpful to Nebraska and the people of Nebraska. Governor Johanns on his own initiative also mailed to me a highway map of Nebraska, possibly thereby inviting me to visit or move to that Midwestern state and make use of that road map in myself traveling throughout Nebraska.

----MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.
One Anglo male high school student with whom I occasionally played tennis in Sweetwater during an early 1990s period when I resided in Sweetwater, Texas, repeatedly volunteered to me outdoors on or near our tennis court, that he recommended Minneapolis, Minnesota, as a good prospective city of residence for me, he said.

During an early 1990s long-distance phone call I made to Michael Crothers of Minneapolis, Minnesota, from the West Texas city where I resided at that time, and that city may have been Sweetwater, Texas, Michael Crothers volunteered to me: "Your circumstances in Texas are pervasively dishonest (toward you)....If you were to move to Minneapolis, you would have a lot more of a social life there than you are currently having in Texas" (approximate quote).

---MINNESOTA.
Tim Hewitt, curator of the Presidential Museum in Odessa, Texas, volunteered to me in 1994, during a brief conversation I had outdoors with him in Odessa: "You might want to consider moving from west Texas to Minnesota. I have heard that Minnesota has lots of socialists, so you might be a better match to that state and its people than you are to Texas." (approximate quote).

---ANYWHERE IN VIRGINIA OR ELSEWHERE AWAY FROM TEXAS.
During the two and one-fourth year period (2013-2015) in which Mr. "John Douglas Martin" roomed with me as my apartment-management-team-approved one total official roommate inside Apartment 325 at Wind River Crossing Apartments in NW Austin, John Martin repeatedly stated to me that he believed I should move to a better state than Texas, he said. "I (John Martin) don't like the Austin area or Texas, and I'm only here because I moved here from Virginia in 1987 to help take care of an older relative of mine in the Austin area," Mr. Martin, a self-identified professional truck driver, repeatedly stated to me over a multi-year period inside the living room of our apartment unit. John Martin also repeatedly volunteered to me that he himself would gladly move back to Virginia, he said, if a career opportunity develops for him there. The same John Martin repeatedly over a multi-year period in the living room of our apartment cited other prospective future U.S. states of residence for myself, including Utah, that he recommended for me. "I (John Martin) will gladly help you move to that state by driving you there myself" (approximate quote), Mr. Martin frequently volunteered, and I repeatedly stated politely in the living room of our apartment that I myself decline that offer from him.

---ANYWHERE IN FLORIDA.
Austin resident Jonathan Haynie, a self-identified anthropology major and undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, politely advised me in the late 1990s that I should consider moving from Texas to the U.S. state of Florida. He emphasized that he felt I would be a better social match to Floridians than to Texans.

----AWAY FROM TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS.
During a surprise official visit he made to my rental apartment unit in June or July 2015, Austin Police Department Senior Police Officer James Turner posed the following question to me after I politely mentioned that my lease agreement for that apartment unit was scheduled to expire on July 29, 2015: "Are you planning to move out of (Travis) County?" (exact quote). Officer Turner did not specify which Texas county, or which U.S. county or city or rural area, he possibly expected me to move to after I might ever choose on my own to move away from Travis County on a permanent basis. I myself am law-abiding and do not have any criminal-conviction record, and I am not under any legal restrictions in regard to which county, which state, or which city or town I reside in. Nor has any APD officer or City of Austin official or Travis County official or State of Texas official ever at any time cited any restriction of any such type in regard to myself.

---SOMEWHERE ELSE IN TEXAS.
During an official visit of his to my rental apartment unit in 2012 or 2013 (?), Austin Police Department Senior Officer James Turner---himself an APD-designated "Liaison Officer" to myself at that time, who even in 2016 continues to state that he still holds that unofficial status with me on behalf of APD---stated to me with emphasis that he was sure that if I do move away from Austin, I could stay in Texas and still achieve my own cited goal of sleeping alone on my own bed inside my locked bedroom without anyone allegedly anally raping me during my sleep or anyone allegedly personally injuring me in any way during my sleep, he indicated in response to stated concerns of mine. Those concerns of mine related to alleged criminal conduct by alleged illegal intruders victimizing me---alleged criminal conduct that I had repeatedly complained about over a multi-year period to APD Officer James Turner and several of his APD colleagues. Officer Turner thereby indicated to me that if I were to myself move to another city or town in Texas or to a rural area in Texas, with no particular Texan city or place ever being cited to me by Officer Turner as my expected new Texan city or place of residence, my privacy rights inside my locked private bedroom of my bolt-locked rental apartment unit in that new Texan town or place for me might get better for me. "You don't have to leave Texas in order to achieve that personal goal for yourself" (approximate quote), APD "Liaison" Officer James Turner stated to me with emphasis in 2012 or 2013 (?) in person at my Westdale-owned and Westdale-managed "Wind River Crossing Apartments" complex at 11411 Research Boulevard in northwest Austin. The Westdale for-profit corporation is itself reportedly headquartered in downtown Dallas, Texas.

---AWAY FROM THE AUSTIN AREA.
"Austin Chronicle" assistant editor Dan Hardick volunteered to me in person inside his "Austin Chronicle" newspaper office in the 1990s (?), that since "the demographics of the Austin area are not a good social match for you," (approximate quote, with the term 'demographics' being an exact quote), he said, I myself might want to move away from the Austin area and thereby develop an actual social life for myself, Dan Hardick indicated. The same Dan Hardick volunteered to me in person inside his "Austin Chronicle" newspaper office during that same approximate time period that "a gay professor (sic) may be wrecking havoc on your own striving for a social life here" (approximate quote, with the term 'gay professor' being an exact quote).

During an August (?) 2001 local phone call I made from my northwest Austin rental apartment unit at that time, Apt. 1638 in Building 16 at Wind River Crossing Apartments, to Travis County Civil Probate Division Director David Ferris at his county government office, Mr. Ferris volunteered to me: "There appears to be an attempt by numerous persons in the Austin area to drive you OUT OF THE AUSTIN AREA!" Mr. Ferris never elaborated on that surprising disclosure, and conveyed possible advice from himself, that he volunteered to me on the telephone that day.

----AWAY FROM AUSTIN, TEXAS.
In 2015, the apartment-management-team-approved one total official roommate for me in Apartment 325 of Building 3 at Wind River Crossing Apartments in northwest Austin, Mr. "John Douglas Martin" his stated legal name, volunteered to me emphatically inside our apartment unit that he urged me to move away from Austin, Texas. "No matter where you move to in Austin, you will find that the problem you complain about of your being anally raped during your sleep will only continue," Mr. Martin emphatically declared to me. On July 29, 2015, I moved out of our four-total-room apartment unit, with my own involvement with Mr. Martin having ended immediately after our lease agreement as roommates expired on July 29, 2015.

---In February 2012, during a local phone call I made from a wall telephone inside Austin Lakes Hospital to my personal friend John Schlueter, himself a local realtor and neighbor of mine and married gentleman and KVUE television station staff member, John Schlueter responded to my oral report to him that day about my being victimized by repeated alleged anal rapes during my sleep as I slept ALONE on my designated bed inside that hospital (a hospital that the Austin Police Department on its own initiative had placed me in against my wishes for a cited "emergency" 48-hour "peace officers" commitment without any court hearing for me at any time) by himself emphatically stating to me from his end of the phone line: "No matter where you go in Austin, you will always be getting raped!" John Schlueter at that time thereby appeared to indicate that if I were to myself move to ANY location situated OUTSIDE the city limits of Austin, my own privacy rights as I slept alone on my own bed in that new location would immediately improve dramatically for me.

---A SMALL TOWN IN TEXAS.
John Schlueter, a friendly acquaintance of mine in northwest Austin and a married gentleman, volunteered to me in 2015, during a two-person meeting in which I paid him back in full through a signed personal check I handed him as I stood outside on the grounds of Crossland Economy Studios (a temporary residence for me in far northwest Austin) for personal loans he had generously offered me earlier this century: "If you move away from Austin to a small town in Texas where you could pursue newspaper reporting there, that would be much better for you. It would give you an opportunity to get connected to the community there and make friends with the local residents." (approximate quote).

---A SMALL TOWN OR MEDIUM-SIZED TOWN IN TEXAS.
During a mid-1990s one-to-one lunch meeting inside an East Sixth Street restaurant he chose for the meeting I had that day with private attorney Michael Robertson, himself a former classmate of mine from Stephen F. Austin High School, that Austin-area resident volunteered to me that since I had training as a newspaper reporter, it made sense for me to leave Austin to pursue a new newspaper reporting job at a newspaper in a small town or medium-sized town in Texas where I could qualify for a reporting job, Michael Robertson indicated.

During a long-distance phone call I made earlier this century to his newspaper bureau office in Fort Worth, Texas, "Dallas Morning News" reporter Dan Malone, a former work supervisor of mine at "The Daily Texan" student newspaper, volunteered to me that "You may have to leave the Austin area in order to land a reporting job in Texas" (approximate quote), with Dan Malone apparently indicating that he expected me to work for a newspaper in a small town or medium-sized town in Texas.

In January 1990, toward the end of a visit to Big Spring, Texas, by self-identified Belgian citizen Bart Brusseleers in which his "Up With People" non-profit musical-entertainment group arranged for him to be an overnight guest of mine inside my duplex apartment unit in central Big Spring, Bart Brusseleers politely volunteered to me: "I recommend that you continue living in the small towns of Texas like this" (approximate quote).

In 1988 or 1987, in the middle of a workshift for me at a temp job for me at a business situated in a shopping mall (Westgate?) in southwest Austin, a former Austin High schoolmate of mine and former Austin High debate partner of mine, Michael Gibson---himself a University of Texas at Austin employee and the son of a University of Texas at Austin Law School professor---on his own initiative walked into my worksite, with Michael Gibson volunteering to me that he believes I should pursue a journalism job away from Austin and in a smaller town of Texas. It seemed to me at the time that possibly a third party unbeknownst to me might have possibly asked Michael Gibson to approach me at my temp job worksite that day and offer me that apparently well-intended advice.

---HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS.
During a long-distance phone call I made earlier this century and prior to 2010 from my rental apartment unit in Austin to his own public law office in Huntsville, Texas Department of Criminal Justice state agency Attorney Jim Frazier volunteered to me that he believes I should move from Austin, Texas, directly to Huntsville, Texas. Mr. Frazier emphasized to me that "the people in Austin have not been friendly enough toward you, so I suggest that you purchase a home in Huntsville and live here instead" (approximate quote, with the term 'not...friendly' being an exact term he used in describing conduct toward me by the people of Austin, Texas). At no time did any official of the TDCJ state agency or any other agency or institution owned by the State Government of Texas, ever explain to me on any occasion how I would somehow be able to afford to purchase a home for myself in Huntsville, Texas, despite my own personal financial status being very weak.

---AWAY FROM THE U.S. STATE OF TEXAS, AND TO ANOTHER U.S. STATE.
During a 2015 telephone conversation I had with first-rate private attorney David Walters of the Austin area, he responded to a question of mine by stating that from a strictly personal standpoint, David Walters felt it would make good sense for me to move away from Texas. "That is personal advice from me, NOT legal advice from me," attorney David Walters emphasized (approximate quote). I had met David Walters and his also-first-rate brother, Brian Walters, during an in-person legal consultation I had with those two very fine litigation-minded attorneys inside their private law office in Austin in November 2010. That meeting took place shortly after private attorney Brian Walters of their Walters and Dunn law firm in Austin volunteered to me on the telephone on November 8, 2010, that "violations of your own privacy rights in Austin are definitely CRIMINAL activities by others that victimize yourself" (approximate quote).

During a 1989 or 1990 long-distance phone call I made from my duplex apartment unit in Big Spring, Texas, to the Seattle-area private home of former "Daily Texan" coworker Harley Soltes (himself then a member of "The Seattle Times" daily newspaper photography staff), Harley volunteered to me that of the four U.S.states where he himself has resided, Texas ranked dead last, he said. The U.S. states Harley cited to me in that phone conversation as places where he has lived and he regards as each being far preferable to Texas, are: Kansas, Oregon, and Washington State. Harley himself grew up in the Dallas area of Texas, but emphasized to me that Texas was definitely his LEAST favorite state in which to live.

----AWAY FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
In 1991 or 1992, during a long-distance phone call I made from my South Texas town of residence to a former journalism instructor of mine at Washington University in St. Louis, Mr. Charles Hilty, then an official of the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., Mr. Hilty volunteered to me from his end of the phone line with no apparent context to his statement: "If the opportunity arises for you to visit (or move to) another country, I (federal official Charles Hilty) would fully understand if you choose to do so" (exact or near-exact quote). At no time did Mr. Hilty ever once cite to me the name of the foreign nation to which he apparently had referred.

In 1991, during a period of residence for me in Sweetwater, Texas, where I wrote a front-page column for "The Sweetwater Reporter," I received an anonymous phone call inside my rental apartment from an irate female reader of that general-circulation daily newspaper who stated: "You are so outrageously left-wing in your columns for 'The Sweetwater Reporter' that you should move to Russia!" (approximate quote).

In 1990 OR 1991, during a long-distance phone call I made from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas, to the Columbia, Maryland, home of my personal friend Carol See and her kindly and candid physician husband, Dr. Dana Wollney, Dana volunteered to me that he had read medical journals during that time period which indicated to him that I myself was "mentally ill", he said, and that for that one total cited reason he himself believed that I would eventually be relocating to Europe, he said.

---MORE LIKELY TO THE FOREIGN NATION OF GREAT BRITAIN THAN TO THE FOREIGN NATION OF SWEDEN.

During an early 1990s long-distance phone call I myself made from my private residence in south Texas to Professor Elspeth Rostow at her LLBJ School of Public Affairs office at The University of Texas at Austin, Professor Rostow responded to a comment of mine about my tentative plan of possibly emigrating to Sweden at some future date, by herself replying: "Great Britain would be the more logical choice" (exact quote). Professor Rostow then immediately added, however, that "you have made some contacts (sic) in Texas, so I recommend that you remain in Texas instead" (approximate quote, with the term 'contacts' being an exactly quoted term).

"I'm sure the British people would be interested in listening to the voices," my politely candid personal friend Carol See of Columbia, Maryland, stated to me in a separate long-distance phone call I made to her and her husband's home in 1991 or 1990 from my rental apartment unit in Sweetwater, Texas. Carol See volunteered that particular observation in response to my stating to her that I might possibly travel to Great Britain or tentatively move to Great Britain at some future date.

In the summer of 1994, the same personal friend Carol See did politely caution me, however, this during a period of possible unemployment for me in Snyder, Texas, where I had worked as a reporter for the "Snyder Daily News," that "your chances of visiting or emigrating to Great Britain are slim to none" (a comment that Carol made to me during a long-distance phone call I made to her and her husband's home in Maryland). It is possible, though, that Carol See's actual words to me in that 1994 phone conversation in regard to my eventually visiting or emigrating to Great Britain were: "Fat chance!"

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