When my father bought 100 shares of this stock in 2003 at $23.50 a share, he didn't know a potato chip from a microchip. He hung onto it until his death in 2010 and then left it to me.  I figured there was no good reason to question his judgment so I held onto it for the past 11 years.  A month or so ago, I purchased another 50 at $294. Somewhere the old man is shaking his head, wondering why I waited so long to pull that trigger.  I can just hear him now - "I give you a road map and you still can't figure it out?" 

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