TEN FACTS AND ONE LIE

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I have been tagged by @tattoodjay to participate in the #tenfactsonelie Guessing Game, so this is my post in response. The photograph conveys one important truth about me. I do live at the beach, and I did take a stroll along the boardwalk at nearby Jacksonville Beach this afternoon in order to record a video in a noisy place for another challenge I am doing for @sndbox! Ten of the following facts about me are TRUE, but one is FALSE! Can you guess which one?

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1 English, and Scots Gaelic are my primary languages, and I was once very fluent in French. I am quite out out of practice, but I can hold a conversation, and make myself understood. My best subjects at school were English, French and German. I was not too great at Latin which I studied for 3 years anyway. Interestingly, Latin has been the most useful of the languages I have learned, because sometimes when I see a word I have never seen before either in English or some other language that I don't speak - like Italian etc. I can guess the meaning because of what I remember from Latin!

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2 I have skated many times the length of the frozen Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Canada; I have skied a black diamond run at Copper Mountain, Colorado, and I have parasailed in the Bahamas!

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3 I like shoes! Until today, I owned 20 pairs of shoes and sandals, and today I added 2 new pairs of sandals to my collection. I have given away dozens of pairs to charity, but still have my favorites that I won't give away.

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4 I have been on 2 airplanes that made emergency landings. The first one was on my very first flight ever to Canada to visit relatives when I was 14. An engine on the turbo prop plane failed, and I was sitting right at the wing and saw it. The plane landed in Newfoundland without incident, but fire trucks and ambulances lined the runway. The second time was on a flight from Aberdeen, Scotland to Heathrow when the plane was struck in several places by lightning on the landing approach, wiping out the radar and all the lights inside the plane. The pilot changed his mind about landing and we ascended again and circled the airport for hours before finally having to land before we ran out of fuel.

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5 I hate looking into a mirror in the dark! I can remember just about every detail of my childhood – what someone said to me, and what I said back. My first memory is of looking into a mirror in the dark and screaming in terror at the dark reflections in there. Years later my aunt told me about how she babysat me one time, but couldn't figure out what was making me scream in terror each time she walked past a certain spot in the room. She said that it was a mystery we would never solve. Imagine her surprise when I told her that I was terrified of our dark reflections in the mirror!

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6 When I was 2 years old I questioned the credibility of Santa Clause. He brought me a beautiful doll's house (which I still have), but I looked at the chimney and announced to my parents that it was too big to come down the chimney. That's when my Mom told me bout the magic powder that Santa uses to shrink things for bringing them down the chimney!

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7 I have had 21 home addresses in my lifetime throughout Scotland, England, Canada and the USA, but have lived at our current address for 23 years now!

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8 I have had several careers in my lifetime, but have been a professional photographer for 24+ years now. I graduated from college three times and my first career was as a schoolteacher. After graduating the second time I became a COBOL programmer, and then finally I studied as a photographer. I have also been a technical support agent for a software company, a real estate agent, a free lance writer, a “head hunter” and an entry level manager.

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9 Although I have no interest in wrestling, I have met many pro wrestlers including Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin among many others.

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10 I have also been at the home of boxing great Evander Holyfield and sat in his private boxing ring. I even have a photograph somewhere to prove it.

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11 One of my favorite hobbies is sumi-e (Japanese style) painting. Until I started classes a few years ago, I had not touched a paintbrush since High School!

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So, ten of the above facts about me are 100% true. One “fact” however is a lie, because it is not 100% true. Which one is it? You get only one guess, and the answer will not be revealed until the post closes. Depending on the response, I will send the winner/winners a share of SBD to be decided on when the post closes.

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I hereby nominate @ackhoo, @countrygirl, and @gillianpearce to participate. If you don't want to, or you have done it before, no worries!

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Here then are the RULES

Post 10 facts and 1 lie about yourself
Invite people to guess (one guess per person)
Offer a prize (SBD, an upvote, comment, or resteem, or your undying devotion)
Wait until the post payout to reveal the correct answer
Use the tag #tenfactsonelie as one of your five
Tag your friends to do their own!

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Thanks for taking the time to read this! I appreciate it. Please check out my photography-101 account here for tips and tutorials about photography.

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