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    Dear Mr. President: A Short Story
    Dear Mr. President: A Short Story
    Dear Mr. President: A Short Story
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    Dear Mr. President: A Short Story

    By Daniel Voll

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    As a young lifeguard, Ronald Reagan saved 77 people from drowning in the Rock River in Dixon, Illinois, according to his biographers. And, during the late 1980’s, an FBI agent did visit a neighbor of the author’s who had been sending (by then) President Reagan cryptic collages, to see if he intended to harm the leader of the free world. What happened during that interrogation, nobody knows for sure. The author’s neighbor died some years ago, leaving to the author his collages, a cane with a rubber horn, a closet full of secrets, and the germ of this fictional story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Sager Group
    Release dateJan 15, 2021
    ISBN9781950154425
    Dear Mr. President: A Short Story
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    Daniel Voll

    Daniel Voll’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Esquire. A National Magazine Award Finalist, his work was selected for Esquire’s Big Book of Great Writing and Best American Non-Required Reading, edited by David Eggers. His fiction has also appeared in Redbook, The Archive, and other literary journals. A Duke University graduate, Voll earned his MFA from UC-Irvine and has taught writing and storytelling in places as varied as Belize and on a locked psychiatric unit in Rockford, Illinois. Also a playwright and screenwriter, he has written and produced for television, film, and documentary.

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