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The boy was no longer little, but in his mind he still was when he asked the question. He was…
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There is an art to looking. Not the creepy kind you get from a stranger loitering by the avocados at…
The rush before Christmas never arrives quietly. It bursts in like a drunk uncle who ignores the doorbell and immediately…
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Mark Twain had a talent for wrapping wisdom in a single clean line, and one of his simplest reminders fits…