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October 5, 1957

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The Waiting

Mary gets a phone call around 10 PM from a man at Powell's Station, about 12 miles away, saying that her husband, Jay, has been in a serious accident, …

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And Whose Little Generation Are You? Or, Astrology Refined

The writer says people are being divided into generations according to the period in which they were born. Every one who was in his early twenties in the …

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