American Mystery
It was the last week of June, 2015, and I was en route to visit my son in New York City. The TVs in the Atlanta airport were still broadcasting details of the horrible event that occurred in Charleston, South Carolina, a few days earlier, when a racist teenager named Dylann Roof walked into Emanuel…
The Great Indoors
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