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My name's Richard Newton. Older, more long-time friends, know me as Rick. But I answer to either. I live in Alabama, though I was born in our Nation's Capital and grew up in Virginia. When I was a teenager the family moved to South Alabama, where my father was from. He and my mom met when they were both working for the FBI. My father had just returned from WWII (we just say The war) and was going to law school at night at Catholic University. He was a clerk in the fingerprint division. My mother was one of hundreds (thousands?) of young women (high school girls, actually) recruited from the hinterlands of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania to move to DC and work in typing pools. Remember that sort of opening scene of all the typists in "Saving Private Ryan"? Sort of like that. My mom's a Coal Miner's Daughter.
I blog here: LetsJapan.Wordpress.Com"BenGoshi" is Japanese for "Attorney." I used to do a lot of litigation. I don't do that anymore. Now I mostly do business matching, but still keep a hand in "traditional" law with contract work and drafting the occasional Will and such. Anyway, "Hi."
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