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and a son out west.

She said she hoped this town was big enough to hold the whole man.

Seventy-one people turned around and looked at me.

I have been looked at like that exactly once before, in 1979, when I was 22 and had to tell a room full of nurses that the billing office had made an error that cost a family $4,000.

I did not stand up.

I did not cry.continue reading …