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At Grapes, Holt is in charge of all special request orders…”don’t ship ’til the 23rd of Jibroo”… “send one case a month to me on the first Monday after a full moon”… that sort of thing. And in that capacity … Continue reading

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Mommie Soph, Part IV

I think it was shortly after Lynn started at Western College for Women, that my Dad got a small apartment in Tudor City over by the U.N. He had been commuting to and from New Haven since 1947 (in addition … Continue reading

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Mommie Soph, Part III

The entrance to Hopkins sits on a hill above our old home on Alston Ave. To get to the school you would have to go up a rather long, steep and snaking driveway to where the academic buildings were clustered … Continue reading

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Mommie Soph, Part II

How she was able to do it I don’t know… wonderful mental dexterity I guess. Here it was, the memories of the murder of millions as fresh as your breakfast this morning, when your heritage and ancestry was put on … Continue reading

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