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Reading To Mother

Reading To Mother

By Ruth on October 7, 2011

Mother has always loved to read more than anything else. That’s not surprising since she is the daughter of Max Perkins, the book editor who published Hemingway and Wolfe and Fitzgerald. He said, “Nothing is as important as a book can be.” About ten years ago, Mother’s eyes began to fail from macular degeneration. It […]

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