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01.21.12Permalink: Stories from GermanySTORIES FROM GERMANY by: Brooke Allen A Luftwaffe Airman's Daughter In 1980, my girlfriend and I were traveling on a rail pass. We left from Milan bound for Frankfurt only because that is where the train went. A German businessman sat across from us and asked, "Where are you going?" "Frankfurt." "Why? Frankfurt is so boring. You should go to Wiesbaden instead." We asked, "Why?" "Because that is where we live and you will stay with us." His wife spoke English with a perfect British accent. It turned out her father had been in the Luftwaffe and had been shot down during the Battle of Britain. He became best ...
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07.18.10Personal Mission: To be of meaningful help to "my people" who I define as "over-educated Westerners." Business and Social Entrepreneur Founder and CEO of: Brooke Allen Information Systems, Inc., Bravo Alpha, Inc., MANE Fund Management, Inc. Co-Founder:, Education Technology Center, Inc., APL PI, Inc. Creator: No Shortage of Work Manager - Head of the Quantitative Trading Group at Maple Securities, USA, Inc. Author - Numerous short stories, two plays, and a book in progress. Interests - Computer Programming, Amateur Radio, Travel, Networking Family Man - Wife: Eve, Sons: Davis and Glen
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08.01.09Permalink: What am I?WHAT AM I? © 2009 Brooke Allen brooke@brookeallen.net www.BrookeAllen.net Originally published August, 2009, in International Family Magazine My friend in college, Debra, asked me, “What are you?” I did not understand the question. “What are you? How hard can that be? I’m Jewish, what are you?” I said I was not religious. “Neither am I. Just tell me what you are?” I had not been raised with a religion… in fact; it had not been mentioned, kind of like sushi. I was 25 before I had even heard of sushi. I asked my parents, “What am I?” My mom said, “Brooke.” She laughed. “I know that, but what am I relative ...
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03.01.09RejectionRejection © 2009 Brooke Allen brooke@brookeallen.net www.BrookeAllen.net Originally published as Borders in International Family Magazine Republished in Folks Magazine on 9/12/09. Dennis and I had never been to Canada. So, in February of 1971 we decided to hitchhike from Terre Haute, Indiana to Toronto by way of Detroit. A kindly gentleman in a pick-up truck offered to take us over the bridge to Windsor, on the Canadian side of the border. He said, “If you are dodging the draft, don’t tell me, but I’m willing to try to get you across.” At the border, the guards asked him who we were. “Just friends.” We would have made ...
