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Nov.16.2011
Michael Ondaatje, a Canadian and a poet by choice, a Sri Lanken by birth, , and a novelist of extra-ordinary talent, creates an unexpected love between ex pats from such different cultures that one would never expect long term success.
In The English Patient, the novel (not the movie), as one...
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Nov.16.2011
So there I was, sitting at the Biltmore’s premium wine bar, sipping a flute of their divine bubbly; the Biltmore Methode Champenoise Blanc de Blanc had just been awarded Best of Class at the prestigious 2011 S.F. Chronicle Wine Competition. I was furiously scribbling down all the decorating...
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Nov.16.2011
During my senior year of high school, I decided to interview my own maternal grandparents, the only happily married couple I knew at that time. Their passionate love story serves as the template for my own second-chance marriage.
Frederick was the pampered youngest child of a long-suffering "good,...
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Nov.16.2011
My parents agree to let me work as a waitress for the summer in a Jewish sleep away camp in the Berkshires. I’ll have to haul trays of food, bus my area, and set up my tables, all for one hundred dollars for the entire summer, no tipping allowed. I don’t care though. Two of my best girlfriends,...
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Nov.16.2011
First of all, I'm with Sir Paul.
They keep writing them; I'll keep reading them.
Now, I don't read love stories for their own sake. I'm not sure that love is the whole point, although it was the first subject that William Faulkner mentioned in his 1950 Nobel Prize banquet speech.
I'm more for love...
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Nov.16.2011
The Love Story:
When we met, over 50 years ago at a music camp on a lake in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, John was16 and I was a year older, a counselor in a cabin of girls that included his 14 year old sister. He was studying violin and composition, I played the flute and she, if I...
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Nov.16.2011
In the window of a restaurant is a couple at a table for two. They eat slowly, each looking at something on the opposite wall. Both are close to 60 years old. Two, five, ten minutes go by. They say nothing. The waitress stops at the table and asks how they like their...
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Nov.16.2011
I would have never made it far in a strict academic setting because I'm a big old sap. Yes, it's true. I'd rather find some kind of satisfying, happy ending--the two pieces put back together at the end of the tale--than something artfully constucted, delicate as a butterfly's wing, a...
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Nov.16.2011
I think the greatest love story of all time is the one that is unfolding between Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and Astronaut Mark Kelly. Married just four years this couple has had to endure Gabby’s slow and hard recovery from a bullet shot through her brain. Early on we didn’t see photos of...
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Nov.16.2011
DONALD E. TRAVERS
1918-2011
Cal athlete, Naval officer, legendary San Francisco prep track coach, attorney, American, loved
Donald Edgerly Travers, a native San Franciscan, Cal man and longtime San Anselmo (Marin County California) resident, has passed beyond this mortal coil, having...
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