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the line she had just drawn in the sand.
I was about 19 and my brother 14 when I came home for a visit on a Sunday afternoon. I had
been on my own for a year or so and my brother had rule of the roost in my absence long
enough to feel pretty confident of himself. I pulled up to the house like I had tended to do for
the years prior and greeted my mother in the normal way. My brother had been sent to fetch
some refreshments in celebration of my arrival and as was his custom, resented my presence
PUBLIC MEETING JUNE 5, 2008
in his territory and made his feelings known by demanding I move my car to a less central
LEVY NUCLEAR PLANT
location. Like Simba the Lion King returning to his home pride, I dismissed his insistences
with a mere wave of my hand; he was summarily displaced and dismissed as casually as one
COMBINED LICENSE APPLICATION
might dismiss a valet.
Accordingly, his parley to my wave off was to bring his load of glass sodas to bear
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 pm, Open House
Location: Plantation Golf Resort & Spa
and roundhouse me without warning, effectively knocking me to the floor. My escalation to
9301 West Fort Island Trail,
7:00 - 9:00, Public Meeting
the matter at hand was to pick myself off the floor and lift his 14 year old body above my head
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and body slam him as hard as any World Wrestling Federation champion; the entire house
shuttered and he effectively bounced off the hardwood floor enough to come to his feet
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
immediately. The match continued as only you can imagine, two nearly grown sized almost-
men pounding and thrashing each other like there was no tomorrow.
invites you to attend an informational meeting on
In the middle of the blood letting, I became aware of a rhythmic annoyance concen-
trating a stinging sensation about my head and neck. Not paying it much thought until I
public involvement in the Levy Nuclear Plants
noticed the end of a yard stick pounding vigorously on my brothers exposed areas; slowly
Units 1 and 2 Combined License Application
looking outside the tunnel vision that had developed and noticing my mother beating at the
two of us and screaming, "if you boys HAVE to kill each other, TAKE it OUTSIDE...you
review process. Progress Energy has notified the
HEAR.... Take this OUTSIDE!"
The thought of my mom standing over the two of us completely absorbed in de-
NRC of the intent to submit the application in July
stroying one another, fists and blood and saliva flying and her beating us for all she was worth
2008.
with a yardstick is indelibly and fondly forged in my memory. I think the altercation was finally
brought to a halt when my brother caught the yardstick in mid-air and broke it off in her hands.
That act stands as frozen in time for me as any polar ice cap; my brother with a broken piece
of yardstick in his hand, my upraised hand in mid arc, the broken furniture and half torn shirts
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laying on the floor, and my mom so mad she was shaking. I see that scene in my mind played
back over and over and realize how lucky I'm a DAD to a house of girls on mother's day.
Comar, Safety Project Manager, Office of New
Hope you remember to kiss your mom at least once a year for putting up with you when you
Reactors, U.S. NRC, Washington, D.C. 20555-
were young, too!
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