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What are you waiting for? Give it 27, 28, maybe 64 years

A man recently received a postcard from a friend.
It was written in 1943.

The card, written by Japanese soldier Nobuchika Yamashita, was mailed from a World War II battlefield in Burma 64 years ago.
It traveled from Burma to Nagasaki to Arizona to Hawaii before reaching 80-year-old Shizuo Nagano.
The young soldier was 23 when he died in 1944.

A photographer delivered wedding photos to a couple last Thursday.
They were married in 1980.
I have had three wives while they were waiting to get their pictures.

When the couple was married 27 years ago, they didn't have $150 to pay for their photos.
The photographer, now 80, found them while "cleaning out some of my old things" and returned them to the diner where the wife now works.
She cried and then wrote him a $150 check.
Then he cried for being such a butthole in 1980.

Maximo Jurado escaped from a New Jersey prison in 1979.
He was arrested Wednesday, after 28 years of freedom.
He is now 75.

The most famous Fugitive -- Dr. Richard Kimbel -- was on the lam for 30 years.
The TV series with David Janzen ran from 1963 to 1967, but then came the movie when Harrison Ford finally caught the one-armed man.

Jurado is headed back to prison, but I'm betting he gets paid a million or two for the movie rights to his fugitive story.

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