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I get your drift, Joe. I have lived with your drift for years. I am saddled with your drift. -Franklin W. Dixon It was an unusually hot day at the beach.  The young boy, no more than ten years old, was clearly in code red. One hour more in the blazing sun and he would …

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Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! The Diary of Anne Frank The library closed at 2 p.m. on Sundays. Displaced patrons ambled over to …

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In early December the bookstore already glowed in the splendor and scent of Christmas. The town’s holiday ramblers streamed in at four o’clock and received their purchases wrapped with snow-ball ribbon, nautical twine or thick red grosgrain…