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I've had a few interactions with Bob, mostly e-mail, and he was always very kind and professional. I sent him an email telling him he would be missed, and congratulating him on his retirement. All of your shoes will be hard to fill, too bad we couldn't turn back time. 😊

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That's a wonderful tribute. People who can walk into a room where things are frenetic or chaotic and the temperature immediately drops when they enter- those folks are few and far between. It's a rare gift.

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29-30 ESB shows. And my better half questions my sanity at a dozen or so going back to Philly and Passaic NJ in 78.

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My solution was to drag my wife along. She has been to between 15 to 20 shows. She’s hooked.

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I saw Bruce at the Philadelphia Spectrum in the lateish 70s. It was one of my very first concerts and pretty fabulous. (I camped out for tickets and lied to my parents and said I was going midnight bowling with the Girl Scouts.) I feel bad about that (the midnight bowling lie) . But those were great times, when 15 year olds could afford concert tickets and see all of those bands. I must have gone every other week to a concert back then.

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God Bless you Bob Condon - thank you for your contribution to this area's big and small stories. You and your abilities will be missed & hopefully replaced by someone of you caliber & capabilities - thanks again.

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I had stopped reading The Front Page, mainly because I think your political leanings too often color your concept of truth, but I enjoyed your talk at Rotary yesterday so much that I am back, at least for now.

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Not sure how to respond to that except to say I don’t consider myself a very political person. I don’t lie awake at night worrying about issues I cannot control. But when I see lies and untruths I try to correct them. Those of us who were in the journalism game for a long time have truth baked into our DNA so I think we are always in pursuit of it and work hard to find it.

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Great stuff.

By the way, today's paper (2/3/23) was very good -- readable, interesting and covering important topics.

Don't know about Bruce. A matter of taste

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His music makes me smile.

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I’m sorry he’s leaving. I have contacted him a couple of times for stories or events coming up or to be printed and he came thru.

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Unfortunately, it seems that what one sees as a truth or untruth may be determined by the eye of the beholder. I fervently hope that someday we can return to rational debate of honestly held opposing views, instead of each side claiming what the other side says is a lie.

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Bob also worked with the newer reporters, discussing their stories with them sentence-by-sentence, dissecting phrases, asking them at times whether there was a more concise or powerful way to express a point, or whether using a similar but more precise wording was appropriate. He was quite a talented mentor and expert writing coach — for many reporters.

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Thanks Thom.

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