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    The Professional and other stories you'll relate to.
    The Professional and other stories you'll relate to.
    The Professional and other stories you'll relate to.
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    The Professional and other stories you'll relate to.

    By Gene Parola

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    When the medico wants to reshape one's most private part, does one have even a single option?
    How about the do-gooder 'spiritual advisor' who burdens the souls of the trapped senior care residents with his shaky answers to questions he should be prepared to answer.
    HIga san takes you on a ride in the retirement home elevator with a short side trip to the Hawaiian sugar mill where he worked as a young man.
    Then there are five simple glimpses at five moments in life.
    The children's story of the sassy cat, Dalwriple, is told in alliteration and is one that neither you nor your tyke will tire of.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGene Parola
    Release dateFeb 11, 2011
    ISBN9781458112811
    The Professional and other stories you'll relate to.
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    Gene Parola

    Mr. Parola is a retired Professor of cultural history at Indiana University and University of Michigan-Flint; the Ministry of Defense, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Koç University in Istanbul Turkey. As a former Naval Air Intelligence officer and a career researcher, Mr. Parola has trained himself to be a keen observer of his surroundings and has acquired a large cultural and social context into which those observations fit. He is a free lance writer of Business (See Honolulu Star Bulletin, July 28, 2002) and Technical (Hurricane Handbook, Sail Net News, Spring, 2003) articles. His short stories have been published in Voices from the Universe and in Bamboo Ridge Press, 25th Anniversary Edition. And the Spring 2006 edition. Mr. Parola speaks frequently to lodges, clubs and service organizations on a variety of topics.

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