A Daughter Named Rebecca

Weddings, Vests, and Love The email exchange between my bonus daughter Rebecca and me started innocently enough: We’d ordered her father’s tuxedo for the big day and it seemed the order wasn’t for the vest and tie that Rebecca had described to us. So I was trying to clarify what color those accessories should be. […]


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A Daughter Named Rebecca

Weddings, Vests, and Love The email exchange between my bonus daughter Rebecca and me started innocently enough: We’d ordered her father’s tuxedo for the big day and it seemed the order wasn’t for the vest and tie that Rebecca had described to us. So I was trying to clarify what color those accessories should be. […]


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A Daughter Named Rebecca

Weddings, Vests, and Love The email exchange between my bonus daughter Rebecca and me started innocently enough: We’d ordered her father’s tuxedo for the big day and it seemed the order wasn’t for the vest and tie that Rebecca had described to us. So I was trying to clarify what color those accessories should be. […]


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The Library of Sham

  Books at our House. August, 2011. Judging by Covers Once, many years ago, I visited a new friend. As she left me in her living room while she prepared coffee, I browsed her bookshelf. Picking up a old-looking copy of War and Peace, I opened the book. Inside the dust jacket was a cookbook! […]


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The Library of Sham

  Books at our House. August, 2011. Judging by Covers Once, many years ago, I visited a new friend. As she left me in her living room while she prepared coffee, I browsed her bookshelf. Picking up a old-looking copy of War and Peace, I opened the book. Inside the dust jacket was a cookbook! […]


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