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Tech Support by
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Now, I’m starting to know how my mother felt about tech support — dazed and confused.
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Still recovering mentally and physically, I think ! by
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I guess this is just getting back to the story of me being a 32 year old baby again I had to learn everything all over how to walk how to write left-handed after being right-handed for 32 years,,, my last 10 days at the civilian hospital I was at Brigham Women’s General where my…
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Heading North — West is Left; East is Right by
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Prompted By Turning Points

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All I can safely say is… no one was killed.
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How I Learned To Stop Being A Litterbug by
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I had the good fortune (Koun) to travel to Japan on business. I was familiar with Lederer/ Burdick’s The Ugly American and so I was on my best behavior. I was remember being impressed with the sale of beer through vending machines on their city streets. Back then I was a smoker and after almost…
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Selling and Saying Goodbye by
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Prompted By Home

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The sign went up today....For Sale
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“Maawidge…is a Sake-wid Institution…” by
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Prompted By Ceremony

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No one had ever gotten married at the station before.
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Vincent by
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At 53, if someone had asked me who Vincent Van Gogh was, I’d have said, “he’s the guy who cut off his ear.” Shortly after my first divorce, I took a lady on a date to the Getty; see some art and go to dinner. We looked at paintings of famous old dead men and…
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Fifteen Miles to 14A by
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It was a June night of thunderstorms in central New Jersey
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Shiva Near the Corned Beef by
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Prompted By Banned Books

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I recognize that all bannings are not the handiwork of the ignoramus class.
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On the Whiskey Trail by
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Prompted By Farms

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Was it a town, a hamlet, an existing site? All we knew was that it had appeared on some old marriage and birth records as far back I could trace my Scottish relatives, and we wanted to see it.
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