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Bertel Schmitt
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After a 40 year hiatus, spent doing propaganda in the automotive industry around the world, Bertel returns as a journalist and to the roots of his initials. His wife is a late model Japanese Import. They live in China and Japan, unless they travel elsewhere.
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