My Parents moved to Mzuzu, Malawi in 1969, with the LA Mission Helpers and their three children.  While there in September of 1970, they had my brother Kevin.  After about two and half years, the family all got malaria and had to return to the states.  Both my parents retained very fond memories of their adventures there.
   I unearthed this report in a pile of junk papers at my Pop's house over 20 years after it was written.  I think I was about 8 or 9 when I wrote it for a family history project while in grade school.   It looks like my mom helped me a bit on page 4 when making the family tree and the teacher didn't like how I went out of the margins on page 2.  Overall, I think I did a pretty stellar job.  Most importantly, I was able to learn more about my family's history with Malawi over 20 years later from a report I wrote, than I ever would have otherwise.
 
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   For about $200 I bought a round-trip plane ticket to San Francisco.  Turns out lots of people were getting married.  The funny thing was, I wasn't invited to any of their weddings, but...

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