Sending Messages

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Montezuma’s Revenge was the wrong name for it, thought Alan Brennan as he sat in a lone toilet stall. It should be called total evacuation, he said to himself as his insides churned once again. Brennan kicked himself mentally for deciding to eat that salad the day before. Everyone had warned him about eating fresh vegetables in a foreign country but he loved salads and this one was just too much to resist. Now here he was at an international “Sister Cities” conference and unable to finish the final dinner.

Everyone had enjoyed the conference. It was a real chance to work together with other cities on diplomatic levels — something a mere mayor didn’t usually do. The nonprofit Sister Cities International helped broker cooperation between cities, counties and even states with like groups in other countries. As the mayor of Richmond, Virginia, he had already established partnerships with Krakow, Poland, and Nuku’alofa, Tonga. In both cases, the citizens and organizations of Richmond had embraced their “sister city,” and the cultural exchanges seemed to never end.

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