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The Last Yard on Comfort Lane
My name's Denise Okafor, and I run intake at Second Chance Animal Rescue off Route 9, just outside
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The Second Bay at Riverside Marine
People assume I was the villain in this because my mother-in-law Carol tells it better than I ever could
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The Bill for Lily’s Baptism
The thing nobody tells you about marrying into money is how fast you become the guy who "
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The Spare Key I Handed Back
My name's Gary Hutchins, I'm sixty-eight, and for two years I was the guy who let himself into
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The Diner on Route 9 Where I Stopped Judging My Son’s Choice
I'd owned Patterson's Grill for eleven years before my son ever brought a woman through that
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The Cat Marcus Left in Cedar Falls
The man sat down across from me at the diner counter before he even ordered coffee, and the first thing
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The Repair Shop on Fenton Street
I want to say I planned it, that I had a whole speech ready. I didn't. I just knew that when my
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The Persimmon on Her Nightstand
I turned fifty-six last Tuesday. No candles, no song, no cards pinned to the fridge. My mother shuffled
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The Repair Shop on Route 9
The hardest goodbye is the one where you already know there won't be another hello. Marlene Whitfield
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**Yellow Roses in Rogers Park**
His company's holiday party always landed on the third Friday of December. This year they'