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BIO – SANDY RIVERA

Am beginning to catch up with lost time – after decades of reading, rearing, standing and stirring. I hike and sing and scribble, and startle my family with unexpected memoir stories. Italian conversation classes are a perpetual project – even though I might never speak well or follow the flow fast enough. Too late to converse competently with Italian in laws, I wallow in the language.

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OLD FAT LEGS

That was the name given to her by Joanne, our youngest sister, who surely resented her the most. She might have been Mildred or something, and her surname is lost […]