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Archive for February, 2011

My Friend, Beto

I first met him in the summer of 2007, in Dominican Republic. He was taking in some shade under the only tree that was close to where he worked: in the garbage dump. We would often sit there and chatter, me in my terrible Spanish and him rattling off in Creole and Spanish and smiling […]

February 22nd, 2011
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Touched By An Angel…Sort Of

I think there is a little part of each of us that loves cheesy TV shows, sappy movies, and corny characters. There has to be - how else have sitcoms lasted this long?
Jenna Lane’s life has never been short on drama - if not less than idyllic - and according to her recollection, it all […]

February 10th, 2011
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Lamb Chop, Anyone?

I was a bit of a victim of a lack of cable tv when I was a kid. I didn’t get to see all the shows that other kids talked about growing up: the ones that you needed to not live on a farm in the middle of nowhere for. But I remembered the puppet, […]

February 7th, 2011
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