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Sep.07.2011
Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice
I. My husband and I spent a New Year's Eve in Venice several years ago. Deciding to forgo the wildly expensive set menus promoted by most restaurants (starting at 100 euros per person and ranging up to 315!), we dressed up, put on our coats and scarves, and walked out into the night to mingle with...
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Mar.03.2011
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 It's 1981 and I'm sitting on a lumpy oatmeal-colored couch in the office of my tutor, Brendan McLaughlin, an intense red-headed philosopher who frequently falls off his bicycle and is almost always late for our appointments, dashing in with bottles of wine and loaves of bread and windblown hair...
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Dec.08.2010
My great-great-grandfather's family Bible
Lately I’ve been questioning whether I am still a southerner. This may also involve questioning whether the South is still the South or just another identity group like model-train enthusiasts or sadomasochists.  I always thought I was. I grew up in Arkansas, in a family that had been there for a...
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