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July 4, 2009 The 4th of July is a happy day in my household, especially since 1973, when our second child was born in the wee hours of this epic U.S. holiday. July 4th was also the celebratory peak three years ago of my retirement on June 30th (an event I’m still enjoying). I installed Google analytics on this website in January. Today, nearly six months later, the latest report shows over two million page views during nearly 600,000 visits by more than 250,000 people. So I make these observations about July 4th with the grateful awareness that 40% of the visits to this website are from outside the United States. The first and only 4th of July that I spent outside the U.S. was in 1965 as a college student at the University of Sussex. I was enrolled in a summer program for American students to broaden our knowledge of English history and literature (I was an English major)

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