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The sign outside of the train station in Amsterdam

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Last Friday night, I had an overnight layover coming home from Helsinki through Amsterdam.  I hadn't been into Amsterdam in a while, so I decided to take a train into the Amsterdam City Center to soak in the city a little, and sample my fill of cheeses (and I did buy a piece of Gouda to take home). Fun fact:  Gouda is named after a small town in South Holland where the cheese was invented.  It's near Rotterdam.  It's on my list of places to see now.  If you get a chance to go to Amsterdam for a day, it's a really beautiful city. One of the first things you see as you walk out of the Amsterdam Central train station is a building by a Catholic cathedral that has two inscriptions on it. God Roept U (in Dutch), and Jesus Loves You (in English) As a casual observer who doesn't understand much Dutch, other than the American connotation that it means that you and your date split the bill, I decided to run the phrase through Google Translate; expecting that it