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| | VQR » The Facts of Life |
 | | He has finished a new comic novel, Second Life, and his previously published CLR story, "Afternoons with Klaatu," was taken from this book and nominated for the 2003 Pushcart Award. |
 | | My great dream was to be told the Facts of Life well before we reached Chicago, and to be taken, once we got there, to Cinerama Holiday—for Lord knows it would never come to Seattle. |
 | | There was my old friend, the Venus de Milo, but more tellingly for me, in my search for the Facts of Life, was a huge colossus of Hercules, done in apparent fl marble, and it was between his legs that we were presently standing. |
| www.vqronline.org /articles/2002/summer/alley-facts-life (2886 words) |
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