About Dave Nelson

Dave Nelson has been around. He is a recovering Romantic. (A Romantic is someone who desperately wants to impress his date but can’t quite figure out how to pay the dinner check.)

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He once stood on the stage in the ancient amphitheater at Ephesus, in the very spot St. Paul famously addressed the Ephesians, and told a knock-knock joke. St. Paul got more laughs. He swam a 100-meter butterfly race against Mark Spitz and lost by 50 meters. That was only because Spitz had an off-day.

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Bob Hope, America’s icon, called him an asshole. (Long story.) He has a Ph.D. in Omphaloskepsis. He can talk his way out of traffic tickets in French and Italian but not English.

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If he could be anywhere right now, he would be sitting on a shaded terrace overlooking the Ligurian Sea, sipping vino pigato, and reflecting on the sweet sadness of Life.​