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Jonathan Potter's avatar

So much to delight in here. Deftly done and sharply whimsical.

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Mary Holscher's avatar

Oh, I love what you have done with my sad story of throwing (or giving?) this little kewpie away. I love the whole life story and how you have incorporated so many wonderful place names. My mother would be so happy to see her full childhood name in print in this way.

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Mary Holscher's avatar

Oh by the way I so love the accompanying one-legged kewpie photo and we’ll as my mother as a baby with her kewpie.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

Mary, thanks so much for your story and your mother's photo. I hope that somewhere she is enjoying her 15 minutes of fame.

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Janie Braverman's avatar

Really resonates for me. I’m loving this series you’re currently working on. A delight each time it trundles, rumbles, vaults or stumbles into my inbox. Thanks, XP!

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Ann's avatar

Soooo goooood.

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Deborah Kay Kelly's avatar

“ performing

bareback on

a silver hamster” !!! Love it

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Laura Pilnick's avatar

Bizarre but wonderful

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man of aran's avatar

Wow. A kewpie Odyssey. Really something.

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X. P. Callahan's avatar

Within the series, I guess this one is what's known as A Very Special Episode.

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Alexis R Kane's avatar

Fantastic tour de force and point of view. A one legged Kewpie! So gooood! And a very special honoring of the one and only “Sunshine Bricktop” in her Eastern Washington time and environs. Wow!

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