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Deluxe Tuxedo Rental

Deluxe Tuxedo Rental was the name of the store that my father owned and operated on the South Side of ..


Dear Dad. I Just bought a motorcycle!

Every letter that my father wrote … all … all had about them an empurpled intensity… a flair … an ..


Dear Dad. I want to be a financial journalist!

Every letter that my father wrote … all … all had about them an empurpled intensity … a flair …an ..


Sam’s Chickadees Leave the Nest

I left home when I was eighteen years old. I had the electricity of youth agitating through my veins, and ..


My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean

Samuel Reuben looked like a father, not like someone you would have an Oedipus complex about. He never seemed ..


Love is Food. My Father, Apples and Oranges

I am in my bedroom with my sister, Selma. An imaginary center-line divides her side from mine. Her side has ..


Come Home. Love Dad

Come Home. Love Dad Introducing Sam Reuben – Inventor, Poet, Husband ... Father I am writing this as a tribute to benevolence. ..


The Fairy God Librarian

I was drowsing in a stuffy old armchair beside my window when I hear a sharp crack, as if something ..


I am in bed again ... with John

I admit. It has been a while. Years, even. But I will never forget that first time. My expectations? I didn’t have ..


Be Kind. Rewind.

Last month, Cyd Charisse, the long-stemmed beauty who swirled her skirts and flashed her go-on-forever legs in MGM musicals, died. Elderly. ..


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