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Even professionals need roommates in this town if they want to live anywhere close to the action. He’s been gone a month and now I need a new one, but only freaks are responding. You’d think with the rent I’m charging they’d self-select, but everybody thinks they can afford it. Read the rest of this entry »

We’re having a lot of babies, not more than we can handle, but still, many, many babies. Last week we had six. Tuesday alone, we had three more babies. Read the rest of this entry »

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Character, conflict, emotional impact. And sentences! Everything you want in a novel, without one extra syllable.
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    Thank you so much, anhinga, but I wouldn't want to try it without the other 199. —David

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    All you need is 100 words to make an emotional impact. Touching.

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The pen name davidbdale honors my mother Beatrice (Bea) and my father Dale

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