"I remember everything about it, like it happened 10 minutes ago, " he said.

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"I will always remember this day and I would like to thank my father because I owe everything to him, " added Dettori, who was ribbed by his fellow riders throughout the week and received one text message late at night from one of them which read simply 'tick tock, tick tock'.

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It didn't provide everything that people wanted and I'm old enough to remember that it could provide sometimes an absolutely terrible service despite the heroic efforts of the men and women who worked on that service.

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It didn't help that we were smack in the middle of the Depression and Prohibition. (Talk about a double whammy-first, you lose your job, then you can't even get a drink.) I remember a lot of potato soup at home, along with canned peas, canned pears, canned everything.

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Postmodernism was the flavor of the decade, and I remember talking to Robert Venturi, who was kind of the godfather of postmodernism, and he hated practically everything called postmodern architecture and was uneasy with all that he had wrought.

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