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"Mommy, mommy, call him. Tell him to come here right away. I have so many things to tell him!"
I had a ton of things to tell him. I wanted him to find a solution to all the shortages of: clothes; of meat, so it would again be distributed through the ration books.
I also wanted to ask him to give our Christmas back. And to come live with us. I wanted to let him know how much we really needed him...
Fidel didn't answer my letter. I kept writing him letters from a sweet and well-behaved child, a brave but sad girl. Letters resembling those of a secret, spurned lover...
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Name calling, lies, and innuendo... AND very poorly written........2006-08-13
This book has zero credibility. Does she think the planet is stupid enough to believe this tripe?
And who got her out of Cuba? Armando Valladares, supposedly crippled in a Cuban prison and relegated to a wheelchair but after his release when the French press met him at the airport with a wheelchair he came bounding out of the plane walking without a problem. Then there was the fiasco of Valladares being the US's U.N. Human Rights Commission ambassador--he couldn't even speak the language of the country he represented--and who tried to strong arm other countries in voting for a Reagan/Bush resolution against the island, which failed.
Alina has had her share of problems--eating disorders, three failed marriages, disillusionment with the US, and as Wendy Gimbel points out in her book "Havana Dreams", Alina realized after a while the Miami exiles only wanted to use her in their sick 47 year vendetta against her father. Two years after her arrival in the US, she remarked to Gimbel "My father was right. The Cuban exiles are impossible."
Bottom line: not worth the paper it's printed on.
It's like Hitler's daughter bringing you inside Dachau.......2005-05-31
It's amazing how detailed Alina gets about her upbringing, her 'father' and the rollercoaster lifestyle she endured while living under her 'father's' reign. To get an idea of what Castro has done and what he is doing, especially to his offsprings is unreal. This is a book one can't put down. I don't think it had much publicity and it's underated.
Please, do you think we are that gullible?.......2005-02-25
This book is full of factual errors first of all. Second, according to spoiled, racist, elitist Alina... Fidel tells the sun when to rise and set. She makes the most outlandish claims in this book (not only about Fidel, but about everyone she mentions). According to her, Fidel had Camilo Cienfuegos killed (nevermind that his brother continues on as one of Fidel's inner circle), El Che was left to die on purpose (nevermind that El Che's family have remained close to Fidel as well), El Che's good-bye letters were forgeries (nevermind that at least one of them was made public WAY before El Che was killed). She also thinks Fidel was also responsible for the assasination of Salvador Allende (nevermind the friendship that Fidel maintained with his widow). According to her the fall of Noriega, the Shining Path and the Sandanistas was his personal doing and was all part of a deal he made with the CIA in return for the CIA covering up Cuba's cocaine trade.
Poor Alina, well you would feel sorry, but it is imposible after reading her mean and nasty comments about every single character in her story.
She admits toward the end that she was not aware that people in the "outside world" were making bundles airing thier family's dirty laundry until a publisher approached her about writing a "daddy dearest". Well, it appears that she decided to give it a try. It would be one thing if she told the truth..... but this book is a damn crime....
Maybe this is Alina's last ditch effort to get her daddy's attention. They say negative attention is better than none. This book is pathetic.
Sorry Fidel.
Vanity and Poor Writing Detract from the Intrigue.......2004-07-02
In this review, I will refrain from disgustingly regurgitating my experiences with and opinions of Cuba, Castro, and politics in general, and will provide a simple synopsis of the book. If you decide to purchase it, it will certainly evoke your own opinion of the aforementioned.
Alina Fernandez is a very poor writer who presumably has received enough fame to allow her book to be published by her nearly undeniable personal connection to Castro, the longest-reigning leader in modern Latin America. She spends the vast majority of the book explicating on her own personal battle with a variety of psychoses and mental illnesses.
The book's content is redeemed primarily by its usefulness in exposing the little talked about lifestyles of post-Revolutionary Cuba's "Rich and Famous." Fernandez sees herself as a debutante unfortunately stuck in the eternal ghetto of Havana and has little sympathy for her less fortunate countrymen. She spends pages disdaining poor country girls who come to Havana to study and reside in expropriated mansions in her neighborhood. She ridicules how, not knowing how to use a washing machine or a toilet, these "bumpkins" throw them out windows to decay on the front lawns of her once-stylish neighborhood.
This book is thoroughly wrought with poor writing and certain vanity, but its veritable glimpse into the disturbing life of Castro's daughter is admittedly appealing.
Look for commies to discredit this book.......2004-05-05
This is a great book, written by Fidel Castro's own daughter. Would you question her authenticity? I think not. Knowing the extent that the Cuban government's propaganda campaign will go to in order to discredit her, would you think that another reader named Cube could be spouting out the same rhetoric?
Cube, you are a bigger clown than Castro. You regurgitate the same excuses used on the island. Everyone knows that the United States is only 35% of the world's economy and Cuba trades with the rest of the world - do the math yourself. Everyone knows that the reason Cubans are starving is because all funds are diverted to exporting communism: in Colombia (FARC), in Venezuela (Hugo Chavez), in Brazil (Lula) in Nicaragua (Sandinistas), in El Salvador (FMLN), in Africa, in Vietnam, in Grenada, and in the United States (wasn't Lee Harvey Oswald distributing Pro-Castro leaflets just before Kennedy was assassinated?). The planes shot down in 1996 were flying in international waters looking for Cubans, like yourself, who chose to leave the island on a raft rather than live under this regime. You yourself live in Brazil - did you leave for a better life, or are you working for the Cuban government like your father? The percentages you quote ("95% of the population was starving, living in the streets, illiterate, poorly educated, had no job opportunity, etc. the other 5% lived in mansions, ate the finest food, bathed everyday, slept on a matress, etc") closely resemble what is presently happening in Cuba. Under Batista, the 5% represented wealthy land owners; under Castro, that 5% represents government officials.
Universal health care in Cuba translates to a lack of medical supplies - try and find gauze for your wounds or stitches for your surgery. Education is simply indoctrination. There exists no access to outside news agencies (the only news in Cuba is the official government news agency). Try and find a book written by George Orwell (himself an admitted socialist) or better yet, find a book by Ayn Rand. What a wonderful education system that jails individuals for up to 30 years simply for possessing books like these. In Oliver Stone's movie, Castro proudly states that "in Cuba, even our prostitutes have College Degrees." Ever wonder why someone with a college degree would have to turn to prostitution?
The true prostitutes in Cuba are those who relinquish their souls to this hateful ideology called 'communism.' It has failed everywhere, and Alina Fernandez provides an incredible insight into the results of this antiquated political system. The book is titled, "Castro's Daughter: An Exile's Memoir of Cuba," not "An Exile's Memoir of a Poor Father."
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When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period–people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.
Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy.
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When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period -- people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.
Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy.
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Another lovely Hoosier memoir.......2007-10-14
I am originally from NW Indiana, so Mooreland is too far away from my childhood. But I enjoyed this easy read, the beautiful prose, and how the author wrote from a young girl's perspective.
She loved and adored her family, although her father's gambling and her mother's depression were hardly touched but maybe that is why Kimmel wrote a second book. Depression in the 1960s was stricly a woman's problem and of no concern to men and thus of no value to society.
Zippy was the youngest of three children. Her two older siblings were years older than her. She learned to admire them from a young age.
Smalltown life is wonderfully depicted in this little book. Ignorant farmers, arrogant Californians, mean old ladies lurking behind dark curtains (at least that is from a child's mind) all come to life here.
Because there was no epilogue in the end, the book leaves us wondering what happened to all the characters. Where did Dana go? What happened to Julie? How are her parents now, if they are still around? Did her brother follow ministry? There are so many questions left unanswered.
A Girl Named Zippy.......2007-10-01
Cute and thoughtful. An easy read that makes you remember how things were different way back when.
I liked reading a memoir that was just plain fun.......2007-08-29
I was able to laugh through this memoir..I have since picked up her second memoir and I am saving that for a rainy (or snowy) day when I can kick back and read it all day long-
A bit lacking in zip..........2007-08-07
It seems as though everyone these days feels compelled to write an autobiography, and Kimmel was no exception. Born in 1965 in small-town Indiana, the author recalls her childhood, when she was known as "Zippy" for her talent at racing from place to place.
While some of Kimmel's story is intriguing -- her best friend Julie, strangely mute; her friend Dana, who arrives from L.A. in the second grade, wearing a black leather jacket -- much of her recollections are just run-of-the-mill little-girl recollections. While most of us can relate to lazy summer afternoons, browsing comics at the store or visiting friends, there's usually got to be some compelling reason to want to read about others' experiences doing the same. As far as I could see, there was really no unique "hook," or anything that made me think, "Wow, this person is worthy of a book!"
Don't get me wrong; it's not a BAD book. It's just not likely to stay in your memory for more than a day.
Just What I Needed ...........2007-06-27
I just picked this book up at a rummage sale. Whoever donated it to the sale has my undying gratitude because this book was the sweetest and funniest book I have read in quite some time. I am a fan of memoirs and biographies but this one is so unlike any others that I am now hooked on Kimmel's writings. I want more Zippy!
Like Zippy, who is four years older than I am by the way, I grew up in a small midwestern town but not as small as hers! I would be considered big city girl in comparison! But the midwestern attitude is so familiar that reading this book was like traveling down memory lane for me! She's the youngest in a family of three kids. Her older brother and sister were already in Junior high by the time she arrived. Her mother refers to her lovingly as an "after thought." That is how the book started out (well, almost). Named Haven at birth, her dad decided to call her Zippy since she could never sit still. You can say that her memories of childhood reeked of love, laughter and cigarettes.
Zippy is precocious. Zippy is curious. Zippy is Zippy, a character that you will never forget. My favorite part is the scene where her sister told her that she's adopted. Outraged, she stomps in and asks her mother if that's true. Her mother stops reading for a moment and says, yes, you are. A band of roving gypsies with a pack of wolves that stand up and preach during a full moon came through the area. The whole conversation had me repeating it to my husband as it was so hilarious and something exactly like what my father would spin out to me when I was a child.
I haven't raved about a book in a real long time though I have read lots of really good books ~~ but this book is something I am going to urge my book club to read sometime in the next year. It is something I think we'll enjoy because not only is it funny and engaging, but it talks about a childhood that is now lost in the mists of time. Building your own bike? Who does that anymore? There are many instances in this book that I remember doing as a kid or have heard my parents do when they were kids. I know that Christmas is more different today than it was in the early 70s. It seems to be a simpler time back then even though it was harder especially after the Vietnam War ended. It was a time of change but Zippy had a happy childhood and those memories are funny and bittersweet.
This book comes highly recommended. If you need a laugh, this book is a good place to get one! It is just a really good read and perfect for a summer read!
6-28-07
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- Life in small town Texas. Great, quick read.
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A Small Town In Texas: Reflections on Growing Up in the '50s and '60s (Texas Heritage Series)
Glenn Dromgoole
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The thirty-three stories in this collection touch on changes that affected not only residents of small towns, but virtually all Americans, in the '50s and '60s--changes in race relations, family mobility, music, cars, sports, religion, politics, technology, even food.
Set in a small town in Southeast Texas Sour Lake (population 1,600)--the essays engage memories of simpler times and explore what may be of lasting value from that era.
Stories deal with such varied topics as blue jeans, pizza, communism, the first Volkswagen in town, visiting the Queen of England, the Kennedy assassination, growing up in a segregated world, wet-dry elections, the influence of a one-armed coach, and why so many people in small towns are called by their first and middle names, like Linda Sue, Bobby Joe, and Carl Wayne.
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Life in small town Texas. Great, quick read........2004-09-29
Glenn Dromgoole grew up during the Fifties and Sixties in the small town of Sour Lake in Hardin County, on the edge of the Big Thicket. This book of essays captures the spirit of that place and a bygone era. His father, Rev. Glenn Dromgoole, the pastor of the First Baptist Church in Sour Lake, was sort of a legendary figure in the area. I always thought he was something of a legend because he stayed at one Baptist church for so many years. But this book shows he was years ahead on civil rights and integration and took a very courageous stand to that effect. Lost a lot of friends over it. This book, however, will grow in value as the years go by.
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The author's memories of what it was like growing up in Frost, Minnesota, in the 1930s and 40s, is a compelling account of life in a community where people care for each other. It is a reminder of the days when neighbors were our greatest form of entertainment.
His small town America tales of Halloween mischief, Christmas school programs, church controversies, and other local social events develop a remembrance of "roots" for his readers.
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An historical look into a farming community.......2003-03-20
Kittlesen depicts Frost, Minnesota as a sleepy but friendly community where little things were big news. Having been to Frost a few months ago, I realize that the town has slowed since the 1950s into little more than a bedroom community where residents primarily work in (larger) neighboring towns. Kittlesen presents an interesting account of what it was like growing up in a small rural village, where everybody knew everybody and life was much simpler, and it is presented in a familiar, slow paced fashion conducive to leisure reading.
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- Thank goodness for this book!
- Thanks for the Memories!
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Aberdeen Stories: Growing Up Right in Small-Town America
Steven C. Stoker
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See the influence a small Idaho farm town makes on a young baby boomer growing up in a simpler time and place! Each chapter a separate, stand-alone story! Each story a memory-jogging nostalgic tidbit! A fun read that will make you wish for your very own Aberdeen!
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Thank goodness for this book!.......2002-05-29
You watch the news and about all you hear is bad news. Turn off the T.V. and read this book and enjoy the daily activities of a boy growing up in small town America. It's the best book I've read in a very long time. Return to a time when a mop was instantly transformed into a hero's horse. A box was the rocket ship that would take you to another galaxy. A boy saw the world through his eyes and now that he's a man he has put his memories to paper. THANK GOODNESS because we all need this type book!
Thanks for the Memories!.......2001-11-09
I must say that I truly enjoyed this book! I read it all in one day, which is what I do when I enjoy a good book.
Steven's brother, Mike, was in my class at school. And although some of the short stories don't connect with me, many of them do.
The things that struck me the most were his vivid descriptions which brought back so many memories. I've been gone from Aberdeen for over 28 years, yet when I read the story about the "Nat" I could actually see it and hear the sounds. I hadn't thought of the "Posse" or Alcho Chumley for many many years. It brought back memories of school days and certain teachers. It brought back memories of "Aberdeen Days," fireworks, the boat dock, spring hollow, the library, the "Sweet Shop," the movie theater, the library, hula hoops, marbles, and the Neeley Honey Company. It brought back my childhood in a wonderful way. I would recommend this book! Thanks Steven for writing it!
Down Home Stories.......2001-10-11
Aberdeen Stories is a wonderful book about children growing up on a farm in rural Idaho. Steven Stoker's writing style is akin to Archibald Rutledge's. When reading the stories you feel as if you are sitting on a front porch listening to the author talk of his boy hood. While delightfully funny, Steven's serious side and his deep feelings of family unity and love are very apparent.
A must for everyone who enjoys reading about a simpler life in rural America.
Aberdeen.......2001-10-10
A very interesting book.Good clean fun for all ages.
Special Memories.......2001-09-15
Usually, I'm not much for a lot of nostalgia, but when I heard about this book I just had to check it out. Why? It is about my home town and written by a classmate of mine. However, I've shared it with friends and found that regardless of when they went to school or where they grew up, in small or larger towns, they share the same stories. With the horror of this week of 9/11/01, reading this was wrapping myself in the warmth of a comforting quilt of wonderful memories of growing up. Thanks, Steve! Move over Garrison Keillor!
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ALL OF MY LIFE: Growing Up In A Small Indiana Town
F. Harnasch
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The author's experiences growing up in a small town in northern Indiana. As satisfying as reading of the exploits of young Ralphie in Jean Shepard's A Christmas Story. As entertaining as discovering the insightful wisdom of Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. New and unique stories never before encountered. Tales appreciated for the special time and place where they could find ways to happen. Vignettes that evoke reminiscences and remembrances of the kinds of youthful thoughts and emotions encountered in early life. Anecdotes reminding one that life and times in the early years while growing up can be priceless. Adventures, arising from youthful enthusiasm, creativity, and curiosity.
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''Along the Way........ '' Is a collection of occurances, rememberances, and stories of life growing up and living in central, rural, Indiana 1931 -2005. This period covers the Great Depression, schooling, World War II, The Walker family Business, Korean War service and several ''thoughts'' that were put on paper while looking out the window.. .abstract sharing bits! Enjoy!
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- Humor, charm, nostalgia, beautiful writing at heart of book
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Clarion Chronicles: A Garden Along the Railroad Tracks...and Other Recollections of Growing Up in a Small Midwestern Town During the Depression
Jack Perry
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Humor, charm, nostalgia, beautiful writing at heart of book.......2004-09-09
Jack Perry's book of memoirs, "Clarion Chronicles", is a treasure. It's a warm-hearted, often poignant, and funny look at a vanished, crucial age in America, when the Depression made for a powerful, bittersweet backdrop to childhood and coming of age in the heartland. Perry, an Iowa-born playwright who turned to writing essays and short stories during his later years, has a natural ear for dialogue, and a wonderful gift for language and the art of storytelling. I read these pieces when they were first published in the author's local newpaper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Mass., and someone finally had the good sense to compile and collect these gem-like stories in one place. Terrific photos of the artist as a young man, and of small-town life in the '20's and '30's, as well. Highly recommended reading.
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- NOT your typical Southern memoir.
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Growing Up in a Small Town
Ralph Bonner
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NOT your typical Southern memoir........2006-05-05
Ralph Bonner, God rest his soul, was not at his best in this. The book is more like a diary than a memoir; having highly charged and inappropriately worded phrases and sentences that would never pass Simon & Schuster's editing eyes. Speaking of phalluses as 'organs' and describing an acquaintances relationship:'She was in the 'sex adventure' part of her development. She married a high school friend who later he committed suicide.'BUt probably my favorite is 'Erotc Oil Well', where he describes himself and a date necking out by a derrick and 'we started necking...the rhythem of the oil well pumping sent her into an orgasm.' Ashaned to be a Southern writer; at least now I won't have feelings of inferiority myself after my first publishing effort.
Okay, so I'll say something positive: This attempt made me laugh at the atrociousness of the type, phraseology, and simply the lack of simple English passages. Not for the faint of heart.
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- A rich in depth story of politics, race, and growing up.
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Even Mississippi
Melany Neilson
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A rich in depth story of politics, race, and growing up........1999-04-01
This book may appear like it would only appeal to southerners, however, its about growing up and how we some things change and others stay the same. The feelings of a woman opening up regarding race are what makes this book. Read it and see if you don't agree.
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Title: Low standards pose problems for even top-flight security.
Author: George McNeill
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Mississippi Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 27, 2003
Publisher: Venture Publications
Volume: 25
Issue: 43
Page: 23(2)
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Gorgeous.......2004-06-21
I haven't much to say except that I think that Richie McMullen's pair of memoirs, "Enchanted Boy" and "Enchanted Youth", are two of the most beautiful, painful, and hopeful autobiographical volumes I've ever read. I was greatly saddened to read of his death online several years ago. It's remarkable that he survived what he details in these books to become the social activist he became as an adult.
Richie rediscovered.......2003-09-20
I am Richie's cousin, a year or so younger; we were close in the early teen years, going to the same youth club dances and to pubs along Liverpool's dock road where Richie knew they allowed underage drinking in the backroom. We had fun; even took girls on dates to Formby beach together (still got the photos!), and I had absolutely no idea what Richie's real life was like. But Richie was charismatic and it was always great to be with him.
About 35 years later I recognised his voice instantly on a BBC radio interview and I got back in touch. I read his books and, as the university literature expert I'd since become, I recognised the brilliance of his literary talent. More than that, I recognised the integrity of his writing which exactly matched the integrity of the personality I began to rediscover. Richie had been a rentboy, but he transformed that experience not just into literature, but in his own daily life. He became a counsellor, and co-founded a charity to support others caught up in the underworld of male prostitution. But more than that, even as he was dying with HIV-Aids, he oozed love, compassion and saintliness in the most disarming, unassuming and matter-of-fact way imaginable. If there are saints, he was one even if he didn't know it: those who loved him did. And those who read him will share in the abundant love he had, in the wonderful way he had of ennobling and dignifying the human condition, however sordid it might have seemed at first blush. Read his books;do yourself - literally - a favour.
Emotionally Gripping!.......2003-08-25
Richie McMullen has so expertly employed the English Language to draw his readers into his struggle for survival as a 15-year-old London rent boy. Once I got started reading I was so drawn in that I almost believed that I was there with him observing first hand as a friend of his. I felt the love, the deep friendships, the fears, the frustrations, the hatred and the soul-searching that Richie experienced and it tore my heart apart. But, I glowed with elation as I read the last words and concluded it was all worth it.
This will be the first book I have ever read twice! In fact, I feel compelled to try to contact Richie directly to express my admiration. VERY good reading! Highly recommended!
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This digital document is an article from Reclaiming Children and Youth, published by Pro-Ed on September 22, 2002. The length of the article is 2386 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Is harm reduction a viable choice for kids enchanted with drugs?
Author: Erik K. Laursen
Publication:
Reclaiming Children and Youth (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2002
Publisher: Pro-Ed
Volume: 11
Issue: 3
Page: 181(3)
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Title: A message to parents of kids enchanted with chemicals.
Author: Robert R. Perkinson
Publication:
Reclaiming Children and Youth (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2002
Publisher: Pro-Ed
Volume: 11
Issue: 3
Page: 154(2)
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