When you're an American in Canada, and the Kerry campaign writes up a great block party in Jamaica Plain in your own backyard --- you know you're missing the excitement of the most important election in a long long time. Enormous praise to the Democrats for making me want to be back in the States, for starting to restore to the leadership of our country idealism, strength, humility, honesty, pride -- all those *romantic* things I, and most Americans believe in. Makes me want to go home. I miss you all.