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Chapter 10a: A Note From Bethani

15m · Alan Sivell's A Boomer Life · 21 Jun 23:55

Last summer I wrote the first 17 chapters of my blog. A couple of those chapters dealt with Bethani, my first serious girlfriend. Since I’m plumbing the depths of my memory and I’m doing the writing, the stories are told from my perspective. But over the winter, going […]

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