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Valley Isle will never be the same so get over it

If you put one ant in an empty jar, he’s got a lot of room to roam, he’s got paradise. Put another ant in there, they both got paradise. It would be paradise even if you put a few dozen ants in there. However, when you put a gazzillion ants in there, you might have ant crimes. Indeed.

So, Maui is this jar. And slowly there’s more people coming here, some good and sane and totally pono. And we got a few that we would want to backhand them on the head if it wasn’t illegal. But you get my point?

So, if we are ants in a jar, we are feeling this squeeze. The ants that came before don’t like the new incoming ants. Maui will never ever be the same my friends so get over it. Really, we can’t go back in time, although we want to. I wish I had a time machine and I could go back to small kid time and head on down to Yamamoto’s Shave Ice on Front Street. But it ain’t going to happen.

Just live your life, go to work, hang up on creditors like we do every day, suffer the Maui life and look forward to Fridays, poke and greenies.

Ronald Sambrano

Lahaina

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