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Feb.17.2013
Chapter 3
Eleven Years Earlier – Small-town South Carolina
Seven hundred and twenty three people lived in Pinopolis, South Carolina, a sleepy little southern community situated on an isthmus of land that sticks into Lake Moultrie, which is located just above...
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Feb.16.2013
Chapter 2
8 a.m. Friday Morning – Drake Hotel, Chicago
Sledge Walker crawled out of the bed, staggered blindly into the wall, but somehow found his way to the bathroom in the plush suite on the 27th floor of the Drake Hotel. The Drake, one of Chicago’s landmark...
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Feb.10.2013
The Sunday Chicago Tribune sported a full page article on gambling corruption in European soccer. Seems a few of the matches, between 600 to 800, were suspected targets for game-fixing. The article goes on to speculate a bit about whether corruption of the same sort exists in American sports....
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Nov.16.2012
Stewart O’Nan’s novel, The Odds -- A Love Story, has many strengths and a few weaknesses, though perhaps the weaknesses are more important than the strengths.
This is a book about a couple whose children are out of the house, who have lost everything in the financial meltdown, and who have...
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Nov.10.2012
Our friend Webster defines “addiction” as “compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal.”
The number of different addictions (which today includes the title of compulsive obsession behaviors) seems to...
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Oct.09.2012
How much should we gamble with the future.
Ballot measures 82 and 83 have shown up in Oregon. 82 is about amending the state's constitution to authorize private casinos. Tribal casinos are currently the only authorized casinos in Oregon and gambling isn't authorized, except for the state's...
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Oct.01.2012
My friend, and author, Kate Tenbeth has an exciting new release! Here is the official story from her publisher:Hello everyone! GMTA Publishing has a new YA novel set to come out on October 1st by Kate Tenbeth! Here's your first look at the amazing cover by UK artist Elizabeth Eisen!About the book:...
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Sep.26.2011
Came down to Vegas on 1 July to a vacation rental Condo at Lake Las Vegas, a really nice resort. Stayed there for all of July and August. Moved into a nice Condo in South Las Vegas on 1 September. Sort of wierd for me because last time I was here for a wedding the Belagio I said I was probably...
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Oct.22.2010
I never win anything; if I’d bet on the tortoise, the hare would have won. People hate to go to the race track with me. When I place a bet on a sure-fire winner, guaranteed to pay off, the horse comes up lame in the stretch.When I go to Vegas, I take in all the shows, because there’s this cloud...
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Oct.20.2010
I never knew what it was like to have trouble making friends until I was 22 and living in Las Vegas with my parents. Throughout my life I always had lots of friends, in school, and at jobs I had, no problem. Even in my darkest times, there was someone. For example, to pick me up at the hospital...
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