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mopinko

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2. i love frank mccourt.

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 3, 2019, 11:40 AM

Dec 2019

love love love.
reading his books really put me in the mind of looking at my roots. w pride.
i am a nerd. i love genetics, and human behavior, and the intersection of same.
and at my age, i am assessing myself through the lens of, who were my people way back, who were my immediate people, and who are my kids.
i can claim anything common to all that w pride, and zero bragging.
the gifts of age.

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good morning. i have decided it's time to write that book. [View all] mopinko Dec 2019 OP

I LOVE that first sentence! Ohiogal Dec 2019 #1

i love frank mccourt. mopinko Dec 2019 #2

i usually type the way you do with no caps. 5X Dec 2019 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author mopinko Dec 2019 #6

i wasn't or didn't mean to be shitty, i was trying to sympathize. 5X Dec 2019 #7

thank you. mopinko Dec 2019 #8

You are getting an early start. Diana Athill won the prestigious Costa award at age 91. emmaverybo Dec 2019 #4

#8 is def the movie. mopinko Dec 2019 #5

Go with Book 2 first-- you've already had some publicity on that Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2019 #9

it's def the low hanging fruit mopinko Dec 2019 #10

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