In a message dated 08/03/2003 3:42:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, eharding2@cox.net writes: > Jim, thanks for the best wishes. I've always said I'm American First, but > Southern by the Grace of God. And to that, I'll add "I'm Tarheel Born, and > Tarheel Bred, and when I die, I'll be Tarheel Dead!" Hi Edward, l also wish you the best of luck with your surgery...you will be in our thoughts. Just for you, we will try to behave. l am Tarheel Born and Tarheel Bred also..so was my father and his father and his father, and maybe even further back for all l know. We grew up in Western NC, in Topton, Andrews, and Marble. Once the mountains get in your blood, you can never get them out. Carolyn M. Woody-Fuller American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God!