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Looking back, lim Taylor i ch' m E E 0.13.: l. g: 8 , column, James Taylor, now 75, Almost before the newsprint remembers the mother of his I . I U a' do' g '“ E1: 2 , fi u ‘was found. ink was dry on the April 19 children as a "great lady and a I E - u m z cr a a) g P.“ j ' No question about it, he's a column, the plume was ring- great mother." l ii' ('6 iiiii 8 5:: '5 g A-root-ti, made-fur-TV movie ing with Jim Tayior informa- "It just didn't work out fur co =' a a 9323'9 33-0 kinda guy -- still full of the tion and sightings. But, most us, that's all," he says. i I l__ a. g; 2 £132 be. El 8 , kind of energy that had him, at informative of all, was an e- He remarried 12 years ago, ' 'W UVE'EE 2 the age of 40, capturing the mailed newsletter for the Bra- to a woman he met at a '. attention ofthe world. malea Radio Control Flyers seniors dance, but who now _ q Doubt any of his exploits, club showing a little man in a has serious medical issues that . l and he'll pull out an old pho- ball cap looking at one of his he wishesto remain private. . tograph to prove the veracity s"adio-crrntrolled scale-model "You know how it is when V , of his tale. Personal pilot to airplanes. you get older," he says. "I was in- _ I a ua" an; >. ' ‘ fabled Newfoundland politi- s "Check out attached," says getting closet to dying, I guess, m 0 h '2 u H E g? t E tl ciao Don Jamieson when he the reader. "Guy in blue shirt andl didn't want to be alone . m . lj;, burrir5, 'S E a ' first ran for Parliament back in could be your Jim. 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