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My love of story started with my parents. If Dad brought home a coconut, he didn't buy it at Safeway; no, he paddled to Hawaii, climbed a coconut tree, grabbed the fruit, shimmied down the trunk, (all the while fighting off bandits), finally riding a tortoise back across the ocean. Fun? Yes, but my dad's propensity for storytelling should have come with the warning that sometimes you need/want the facts and it can be frustrating when they're hidden from you. And yet, his fiction made me realize the truth in the lies fiction authors tell. He was declaring his love and his willingness to traverse an ocean for me.
I also grew up listening to my mom and her sisters share stories around the kitchen table. Tales of getting into trouble when they ...more

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	Mosaics: A Collection of Independent Women (Mosaics #1) by Susan Kaye Quinn (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Keyan Bowes (Goodreads Author), Caroline M. Cao 4.32 avg rating — 34 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Aiden and Smoky Rachel, Aiden, Smoky, Gary He was a six-week old Malamute, a grey puff ball that looked like a baby bear. We called him Smokey. When we got him home he had diarrhea and was throwing up so we took him to the vet. I sat him on the exam table and he slowly sunk d Read more of this blog post »

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