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My Grandson, The Writer

August 8, 2008July 1, 2021 by Bill Donahue

The summer I turned 18, I lived with my grandmother in our family’s rambling summer home in New Hampshire’s Lakes Region. It was an unusual housing scenario, but somehow the experience kind of launched my writing career.

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