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A Year in Reading: LaToya Watkins

I read to escape a dying world in 2023. I spent the first part of the year visiting people in hospitals. There seemed to be pain and suffering at every turn. I also did quite a bit of driving. I really got to know Texas that way. Made her mine as much as I could. At first, I was

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