In some respects, an eccentric. In other respects, you don't get more typically Swedish or, to be more accurate, more typically a smålänning. He was both controversial and utterly anonymous. An elderly man in a blue denim work shirt and battered, faded khaki pants eating the daily special in a worn out lunch restaurant in a small town in rural Sweden. And one of the wealthiest and most influential businessmen of post WWII period.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/obituaries/ingvar-kamprad-dies.html
I live in a small Canadian Prairie city on Treaty 6 territory with a spouse and a dog. We retired in 2018. This is what life is like.
Sunday, 28 January 2018
In some respects, an eccentric. In other respects, you don't get more typically Swedish or, to be more accurate, more typically a smålänning. He was both controversial and utterly anonymous. An elderly man in a blue denim work shirt and battered, faded khaki pants eating the daily special in a worn out lunch restaurant in a small town in rural Sweden. And one of the wealthiest and most influential businessmen of post WWII period.
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