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...raised in Cheyenne, his father a career military man, his mother a Mormon, his grandfather a First Assembly of God minister, and there was no dinner conversation long enough for Korhonen to slip in the news that he was a different kind of cowboy. Not until his early 20s, as an exchange student in Florida, did he come out, and there is something to be learned about diversity in Wyoming when you hear Korhonen say, "Orlando was like a gay Mecca...
...intense arena of competition. Suddenly a shrill cry of "BINGO" eminates from the audience and a unanimous disappointed sigh permeates the air. The numbers are read back to check for cheating, as everyone waits with baited breath, hoping that this string of luck is only a farce. Five crisp 20s are quickly distributed to the proud winner, and in true Bingo tradition, the money is laid out over the remaining cards in order to bring luck during the next set of games...
Stein's story did not lack for 20th century drama. Born into a German Jewish family on Yom Kippur 1891, she had declared herself an atheist by her teens. In her 20s she became one of the first German women to earn a Ph.D., specializing in the philosophical subdiscipline of phenomenology. Introduced to Catholicism through Christian phenomenologists, she was baptized at age 30, and 11 years later, under her new name, she took the vows of a Carmelite nun. Sister Teresa's stance on Jewish issues was predictably mixed: she wrote a letter to the Pope deploring anti-Semitism...
...wearing a black suit jacket, white shirt, black Kangol hat with red stripes walked up to her window at the bank and presented a note to her. The reporting person stated, "Excuse me?" The suspect then stated, "Calm down and just give me the 50s, 100s, and 20s, no dye pack, and I'll be out of here." This is also what the note read. There was no mention of weapon...
...spurned nanny applicants is Pettie, an unstable kleptomaniac in her early 20s who grew up in the Morning Star, a London home for unwanted children. Her interview at Quincunx House has left her enchanted with the beauty and serenity of the place, so at odds with the conditions of her own childhood, and stirred by her meeting with the handsome, fortyish widower who owns it. She assumes, correctly, that she was barred from this paradise by "the old woman," Mrs. Iveson. Pettie begins making daily train trips to spy on the Davenant household and exact revenge...