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Month: July 2011
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It was surreal, almost like a scene from a World War II movie in which trains are stopped and troopers run down the aisles checking everyone’s papers. I was awoken from a fitful sleep by the squawking of some radio message and the clumping of shoes in the wee hours of the morning on Train…
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My friend Al appeared bedraggled as he entered Sophie’s Forge Café at 7:30 on the Tuesday morning in late July for our usual breakfast of the Old Forgers. It was already hot on a day that promised to be stifling, and Al’s usual smile was nowhere to be seen. “What’s wrong, Al? Did Evelyn kick…
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To be truthful, I never thought too much about Betty Ford during her time as First Lady and the years after that. I knew, of course, of her fight against breast cancer and her subsequent battles to rid herself of the twin problems of prescription drug addiction and alcoholism. Now with her death on July…
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