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Arleen Williams is a Seattle novelist, memoirist, and co-author of a dozen short books in easy English for adults. She teaches English as a Second Language at South Seattle College and has worked with immigrants and refugees for over three decades. To learn more, please visit www.arleenwilliams.com and www.notalkingdogspress.com. ...more

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Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

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My daughter was living in Brooklyn one winter and complained of hiking through the endless snows to the subway for her commute to Manhattan. Then when the snows began to melt, the flooding was worse!

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