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    PEOPLE I LOVE: Sister Mary Pellicane at 98

    Sister Mary Pellicane has been at the business of being a nun—and being alive—a long while. On the occasion of her 98th birthday, meet this still feisty, still questing nun's life story.

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    PAUL: A Chance Encounter

    There's a wheelchair and a guy in it at the end of the sidewalk. It's an old chair, not those fancy Millenium Falcon chairs you see. An old guy, with skin weathered like an ancient saddle...

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    The Decorated West Virginia Military Pilot You’ve Never Heard Of

    The 10-year-old Joe Turner watched, dumbstruck, as the jet fighter raced up the Kanawha River and then UNDER a bridge. Now, that was a job to have.

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    The Dancer In the Hills

    The back-to-the-land movement brought hosts of wannabe farmers and dreamers to West Virginia. It also brought a dancer who brought big dreams into the deep hills.

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    PARADIGM SHIFTING: Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Life in the Trenches of Poetry

    In this 1995 profile, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti forecasts "the revenge of the white man" taking place in contemporary politics in 2018 while reflecting on an epochal career as a poet, artist and essential figure in the rise and spread of the Beat movement.

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    Rounding up a father’s life in bits and pieces

    Fathers can be mysterious guys, especially if they were members of the Greatest Generation who didn't talk about things like their ships being torpedoed in the Atlantic and whose go-to form of anger was volcanic utterance. But in the bits and pieces of a father's life, I find the man he was.

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Welcome to The StoryIsTheThing, featuring poetry, essays, photo-essays, video & more. The site is a production of writer, editor, multimedia producer, and itinerant musician Douglas John Imbrogno. Its companion site is AmpMediaProject.com, where we do all the heavy lifting of moving pixels around. REACH ME via the Contact page or email: douglasjohnmartin AT icloud.com

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