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Something fresh and new for Christmas. Could I really deliver that? Well, the reaction I’ve had to Star: Poems for the Christmas Season is encouraging on that score. I thought I had the measure ...

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We been doing that almost every night for a year.” She smoothed out the counterpane until there wasn’t a wrinkle in it and then rather reluctantly sat down on the bed. There was only one chair ...

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