Mike Summers
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"Michael Victor Summers" Officer of the Order of the British Empire/OBE (born 1952) is a Falkland Islander/Falkland Islands politician who has served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly/Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands/Legislative Assembly for the Stanley constituency since he won a Stanley by-election, June 2011/by-election in 2011. He was previously a :Category:Members of the Legislative Council of the Falkland Islands/Member of the Legislative Council from 1996–2009.

Summers was born in Stanley, Falkland Islands/Stanley and grew up in Port Howard. He moved to the UK at the age of eleven after winning a government scholarship to Shaftesbury Grammar School, a Dorset boarding school. He went on to read business studies at Middlesex University. After university, Summers worked for various construction and engineering companies all round the world, before returning to the Falklands in 1989 when he became General Manager of the Falkland Islands Development Corporation. During his time as General Manager, Summers negotiated the air link between the Falklands and mainland South America with the Chilean airline LAN Airlines/LAN, which remains the only commercial airline to fly to the islands.

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I looked down at my key ring, and she had attached the Proverbs 31 heart bauble from her purse.

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We hugged for five minutes. We were broken, and maybe we were never going to heal on our own, but we felt God took both our hands and put them together.

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I don't think anybody realizes the back problems he had. That set him back -- not only hurt him physically but hurt him mentally. But now he's got the best mental attitude he's had since he's been here.

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I had conversations with people in Russia, South America, Africa. In my profiles, I wrote that I was looking for a Proverbs 31 woman. (The Old Testament chapter) talks about the perfect mate being trustworthy, hardworking, dedicated, faithful, putting God first. And Hope was the only one to respond to the Proverbs 31 reference.

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I had that fear of the first five seconds, of it not working out, of not even unpacking your suitcase but going right back home.

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What the Kirchner government has done is destroy the vestiges of trust between Falkland islanders and Argentina. Falkland islanders believe Argentine society would support the Kirchner government's approach to the Falklands issue. For that reason they will not trust any Argentine.

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