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Banks'/><category term='poetry'/><category term='anime'/><category term='Paul Burman'/><category term='The Greenhouse Literary Agency'/><category term='Lauren Parsons'/><title type='text'>Comments on Exclusively Independent: Christopher Vanier's Blog</title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.exclusivelyindependent.com/feeds/3585384067739148740/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1089538870163853400/3585384067739148740/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.exclusivelyindependent.com/2009/12/christopher-vaniers-blog.html'/><author><name>Mike French</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='19' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RF_ztaP2GnE/TYIjg94lB3I/AAAAAAAAEx8/xpPrP-Yx9qQ/s220/thursday3_edited-1.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089538870163853400.post-8301575120752988096</id><published>2010-04-16T11:22:22.481+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-16T11:22:22.481+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hello Sylvester,
Great to hear from you - I&amp;#39;m ...</title><content type='html'>Hello Sylvester,&lt;br /&gt;Great to hear from you - I&amp;#39;m fascinated by Kittitians&amp;#39; response to &amp;quot;Caribbean Chemistry&amp;quot;. I dedicated it to &amp;quot;my childhood friends of St. Kitts and Antigua&amp;quot;, though it is destined more widely to all those who emigrate and all those who make mischief while growing up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ll reply to your email,&lt;br /&gt;Chris</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1089538870163853400/3585384067739148740/comments/default/8301575120752988096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1089538870163853400/3585384067739148740/comments/default/8301575120752988096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.exclusivelyindependent.com/2009/12/christopher-vaniers-blog.html?showComment=1271413342481#c8301575120752988096' title=''/><author><name>Chris</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13306709447530485119</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.exclusivelyindependent.com/2009/12/christopher-vaniers-blog.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089538870163853400.post-3585384067739148740' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1089538870163853400/posts/default/3585384067739148740' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-88825376'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089538870163853400.post-6931833524610404944</id><published>2010-04-15T15:04:07.546+01:00</published><updated>2010-04-15T15:04:07.546+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hi Christopher, It&amp;#39;s an honour to 
simply get ...</title><content type='html'>Hi Christopher, It&amp;#39;s an honour to &lt;br /&gt;simply get in touch as it was back in the early 1990&amp;#39;s i visited your parents home in Fortlands St.Kitts to gather some background information on Leeward Islands Scholars. I don&amp;#39;t need to remind you that you were indeed the 1959 LI Scholar your younger brother whose name eludes me being the 1963winner and Noel being the first State Scholar in 1967. An unprecidented achievement in our island&amp;#39;s history. I was very fortunate to meet your parents and your sister who graciously gave me some very useful details about your time at the then St.Kitts Nevis Grammar school. Sir with your permission and without impinging on your time, I would be delighted to tell you about my project researching LI Scholars from 1950 to 1966 when the system was changed following the gaining of Statehood for St.Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla.I would appreciate if you could contact me on email sylly157@hotmail.com as a premis of an introduction. I would then be able to give you my personal details so that we could become familiar. My name is Sylvester Leader and when you were the Head Prefect at SNGS by older brother Leonard was the youngest student at the new modern building at victoria Road. That is well over 50 years now.&lt;br /&gt;I would save the rest for later and do humbly ask that you get in touch please at a time convenient to you. I am very anxious to obtain a copy of your book on the chemistry of growing up on St.Kitts</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1089538870163853400/3585384067739148740/comments/default/6931833524610404944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1089538870163853400/3585384067739148740/comments/default/6931833524610404944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.exclusivelyindependent.com/2009/12/christopher-vaniers-blog.html?showComment=1271340247546#c6931833524610404944' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='http://www.exclusivelyindependent.com/2009/12/christopher-vaniers-blog.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089538870163853400.post-3585384067739148740' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1089538870163853400/posts/default/3585384067739148740' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='blogger.itemClass' value='pid-323610534'/></entry></feed>
