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The mirror is not broken but it is distorted with water spots and age.  She looks at herself and doesn’t see shining blue eyes or a smile.  She sees lines like the crevices of a canyon and tears, tears that never stop falling.

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short story manzanilloShe is in Manzanillo, Mexico, sitting in the cove below the Las Hadas resort, the resort looms above, a huge white Moroccan style complex, balconies looking out over the clear blue water of the bay below and the Pacific.  She leans against a rock and sifts the sand between her hand, gathering small shells in the process. 

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allican stories

“I had a farm in Africa.”  This is the start of Out of Africa, a favorite movie of mine.  I love the way Meryl Streep says it, “I had a farm in Africa…”.  I had a ranch in California.  OK, so it wasn’t a ranch anymore, it was a Bed and Breakfast on 150 acres of land in the Sierra Foothills.  I bought it with my savings, put everything I had into it, lost everything I had.  But it was well worth the experience.

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