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A Billionare Of Words

haystack / March 3, 2025

If every word he read or wrote got him a nickel, he’d have been a billionaire many times over. Born in coal mine country (Benham, Kentucky), my friend of 25 years was raised in a God-centric, Church-going Appalachian country home…

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An Unlikely Boomer Bromance

haystack / January 25, 2025

As I set out to tell this story, I’m struck by the idea that it started 25 years ago. When it all began, the internet and social media and the dynamics of human interaction couldn’t have been more different than…

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A Bright New Star Shines In Heaven

haystack / July 29, 2019

On June 30th, 2019, after a mercifully-brief and terribly unforgiving illness, Denise passed away in a hospital bed somewhere in Brooklyn New York. I don’t know when she was born, I don’t know where in Brooklyn she lived, I never…

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