A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Happy Birthday, Lady Gail-Gail!

Happy Birthday, Lady Gail-Gail!

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John Mendelssohn
Jul 25, 2010
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Happy Birthday, Lady Gail-Gail!
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It’s been my custom to add a new little essay here every day of the week save Sunday lately, but today is a special occasion — the anniversary of the birth, in Canada, several years ago, of my friend Lady Gail-Gail. The remarkable thing is how, without a lot of fanfare, without a lot of gaseous rhetoric from demagogues, her birthday has come to be a de …

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