
We live in Hong Kong for a year beginning immediately after the "handover" to China in 1997. I teach at the Chinese University of Hong Kong while on sabbatical from Cornell. | |

I contemplate turning 47 in May, 1999.
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Jennie rides the entire Cass Park bike bath for the first time, and holds up a sign to prove it, 1999 |

We vacation in California, and watch the Mets play the Padres in San Diego, 1999. | |

We fly to Itlay to celebrate the millennium computer scare, while I teach in Cornell's Rome program for the Spring term; Rob and Jennie attend an international school there, 2000.
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I return to Brooklyn's Coney Island, and take a few swings at the batting cage, 2002. |