I just got a lovely email from a preacher in rural Louisiana. Many people are so quick to bitch that it was really nice to hear something so positive.

“I’m reading for the second time ‘The Other Irish.’ What an awesome and wonderful book. This is my second reading. Expect to read it more times. It is so marked up with notes that it may well be fully underlined before all is said. Just want to thank you from the deep of my heart for such a writing.

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