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Fanny Giles gave her father (a psychiatrist) a note from her kindergarten teacher. They were at the house that they would be moving into the following …
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Sam and Jenny wanted eggs for breakfast, so Sam went down the hill outside their house and bought them from Old Man Sandoval. They'd agreed on …
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Simon, an 82-year-old retired professor and famous ornithologist, lives in an old Victorian house in Colorado. His wife, Anna, left him 34 years ago and he…
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Alfred Upsinger is a poet who teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder. For nearly a year now, he has been writing to an African poet named …