Monday, December 21, 2020
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I only met John and Sandra one time, but it was very memorable to me. I moved away from Jamestown in the '80s but have come back a few times over the years. On one visit about 5 years ago, I drove over to my childhood home. It was summer and the front door was open, so I walked up and knocked. John answered and i told him that the house was the house that I grew up in, and he immediately opened the door and invited me in! A total stranger that he had never met before! We walked through the house and I told him and Sandra stories about how my Dad had added on to the house and they seemed really fascinated by it. I mentioned that my bedroom had been down the hall at the other end of the house and John said, " well, you need to see it then!". He opened it up and it was his music room. There were guitars everywhere and Browns pictures and banners all over the wall. He had no way of knowing that I was also a guitar player and that I had grown up a Browns fan. If I had dreamed of coming back to my childhood bedroom as an adult and setting it up exactly the way I wanted it, I couldn't have done it any better than John, and I told him that. He seemed pretty happy to hear it. It was a great visit and very meaningful to me that he would allow me, someone he didn't even know, to come into his house and take a walk down memory lane. I'll never forget it.
