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My dear wife, the gentlemen who detain me do not understand why you neglect to send what they ask for my release. Try to appreciate that when they saw us get out of your patron’s car at the embassy, they took us to be valuable. Read the rest of this entry »

Dad has gone and left me with this box of I don’t know what. It has stood like a book on the cookbook shelf with undiscarded Yellow Pages and other worthless paper, Read the rest of this entry »

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

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