Jim Allspaw. Lt. Col. in the Army Signal Corps, engineer at GE, founder of Allspaw Consulting Services. He wrote poems to my mother before and after they were married. He drew a portrait of her in Africa. He built us a house in the woods, on a dirt road, and he built me a dollhouse. [...]
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