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‘These morose days through which we are living’

How often we learn about one thing when searching for something else. That’s one reason I encourage my 15-year-old son to read, read anything, read every chance he gets. It’s amazing what you might just learn, serendipitously, including smooth-feeling new words.
Such was the case this evening as I was perusing Western short stories by Owen [...]