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Some More about Aunt Barbara
My dad and I traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2011 because his sister died unexpectedly. I lived in Portland, Oregon, and he lived in NW Indiana, an hour from Chicago.
Massachusetts, Part 9
I just looked through Aunt Barbara’s two passports.
She went to Guadalupe and Jamaica in 1981, and she went to France and Montreal, Canada in the 1980s. She was in Montreal in 1982 (March 25); on the same page, strangely, is a very faded stamp that appears to say “Maryland” and has the date of February 4, 1986.
Surely she didn’t live in Montreal, Canada for four years — I just talked with my dad about it, and it looks like she visited that particular part of Canada more than once.
She was in France in 1986, when she was thirty-nine. She also had an International Driving Permit, to drive in France. It looks like she arrived in France on 13 Aout (August?), 1986; she has France stamps for Sept 20, 1986 and Sept 30, 1986.
She returned to Logan Airport in Boston on Sept 30, 1986. On a separate page is a French stamp for Sept 2, 1986; I’m guessing she had to get her passport stamped in different parts of France, while she drove around. She returned to France in November (18th, apparently), 1986. Then again, maybe she was still there. The same passport page has “Sept 16” and Sept…