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Lorie has lived and worked in Northern Nevada for nearly fifty years. Her career in elementary education included many years as a teacher for the Carson City School District. She also contributed personal and political columns to Carson City’s Nevada Appeal for fifteen years. Retired now, she lives with her husband in Reno, where she volunteers as a Reading Grandma. She spends much of her time avoiding housework by reading, writing, and watching her granddaughter grow up too fast.

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The Ending Writes Itself

by Evelyn Clarke

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My Friends

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Spoon River Anthology (Classici Book 444)

by Edgar Lee Masters

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“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”
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“I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.”
― Anne Tyler

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

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