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* I think I'll wind up there.
Old Man is there salavation in that dog-eared edition of the Anchorage Times? You hold it like a loved one. Reading the front page like a face your forehead kissed with printer's ink. The antiquated fan spins the old smells of the room that your nostrils devour hungry for memories. Does your mind drift now to distant cities of your youth? Are you outside yourself? Free from the bone-tired corpus running through Summer playgrounds answering some elusive call.

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Reviewed by Al Terego (Reader)

Reviewed on June 30, 2004

Neat write, but what has it to do with the action/thriller category...AL

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