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Article: What my Uncle Joe taught me, and you

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February 15, 2009
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Ask anyone who were the most influential people in their lives and the list that comes back invariably includes a teacher.

My list includes a teacher, although I never sat in one of his classrooms or heard him give a lecture.

His name was Joseph Flood. He was my uncle -- Uncle Joe -- two words that were rarely uttered in the Flood clan without also saying "and Aunt Bonny."

"Uncle Joe and Aunt Bonny" -- they were as inseparable in our minds as they were in their 54 years of married life.

One of my earliest memories is of Uncle Joe. Well, not him, actually, but his car. It was a tiny little black thing that smelled of leather and had little lighted wings that popped out of the doorposts to ...

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