UPSTATE…

 
We are in Wappinger’s Falls, upstate New York, and I sit here on a muggy, humid Saturday morning, in a Starbucks.
I have just ambled over to Wal-mart, resisted buying $6 guido-wear, stuck to the task of buying a pack of socks (6 for $4, and whoopee, let’s have a big hand for for child labor!) [...]

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A SPIRITED CHILD

“Wow,” said my brother-in-law, “she’s a spirited child.”
“And I should be a spirited Dad,” I countered, “imbued with large amounts of liquor to deal with the dervish that is her!”
He looked at me, smiling. “Sure, sure,” he replied, “but she really is a spirited child.”
“Is that some sort of category, adjective or euphemism?”
“No, it’s an [...]

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