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Larry, originally from Rochester, New York, currently lives in Michigan with his wife and family. Songs for Clara is his debut novel. More are on their way.

Larry is Catholic, a classically trained pianist, a composer, plays golf and D&D too often for his own good, and loves to people watch and then write about them.

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I'm treating March as my personal NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, for those who are unfamiliar), but without focusing on the word count - which is a false representation of progress, imho. What's the point of churning out 50,000 words in a month, if 50% of them are the wrong ones?

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Middlemarch

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Your Life in the Holy Spirit: What Every Catholic Needs to Know and Experience

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Whose love of classical music moved me, and love of God changed me.”
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“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde, Epigrams; Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

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“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”
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“It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.”
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“A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.”
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“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.”
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