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The Holy Grail of Hardware Stores

My husband had a doctor's appointment a few days ago and afterwards I asked him if he wanted to go anywhere else. He wasn't sure and then I reminded him that a new hardware store was open. "Ooh. Let's go there", he exclaimed. "Ok." Cause, ya know, tools are da bomb. So my first impression was that it was shiny and that most of the things in there I had no clue what they were. But the husband was happy. "What's this?", I asked. "It's a wrench." "Oh. I just liked it cause it's the color of The Hulk." Then he started explaining some thingabobby to me: "Yeah. I don't really know what you're saying but that's ok. I'm tired. I think I'm gonna sit down." "Can you sit in it or is it on display?" "Uh. I'm gonna sit in it. I'll tell em I'm trying it out." "Oh. It has a tray." "Ooh. An armrest." "I think that's to set dr

A Review of My Darling Dorothy by Jo Virden

My Darling Dorothy By Jo Burden Historical Romance 398 pages The bundle of old letters, carefully tied with a blue ribbon, that Jo Virden discovered among some dusty boxes in her mother’s basement held a mystery: Who were the young soldiers whose letters her mother had saved all these years, and what happened to them? Based on these very letters from the era, My Darling Dorothy  is a timeless love story that transcends both hard times and the brutal impact of war. The tumult of the Great Depression and World War II provides the background for a novel about three young people; Tommie, Jack and Dorothy and their challenges, struggles, defeats and triumphs. Tommie struggles to survive the Bataan Death March in the fall of 1941, clinging to his dream of a gratifying future with Dorothy as his bride. On the frontlines of the European Theatre, Jack experiences the horrors of endless battle. Dorothy, caught between the two, works to maintain her dream of a life beyond smal