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"Les Vieux Amants" by Kit Rohrbach Tonight as my arthritic ankle nestles Into the sunken small of your bad back, My crooked finger runs along the slack Line of your gray jaw. Sclerotic vessels Slow blood to muscles cramped like pretzels. Beneath my head I hear the creak and crack Of your sore shoulder; my sacroiliac Complains as joy and comfort wrestle. It does not matter. Others might eulogize Romeo and Juliet but Shakespeare Never gave them time to realize The length and depth of secrets we hold dear. You kiss the crow's feet etched around my eyes; I whisper words of love in your deaf ear. About the Author 
I lead an unexciting life. I've never biked across the Australian Outback, worked undercover for the FBI, or been kidnapped by aliens. Oh, wait — maybe I've been kidnapped by aliens. That would account for those annoying memory losses, since I'm quite sure they have nothing to do with my age.
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A Christmas Blizzard
GK's New Holiday Story
A comic novella about a Hawaii-bound holiday traveler who ends up stranded in his North Dakota hometown.
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The Prairie Home cruise has become legendary on two of the Seven Seas and now is setting sail on a third, a weeklong spring break cruise of the western Caribbean along the Mexican coast, and it leaves March 14 from Tampa.
Stories of a Wobegon romance far from home, all delivered with Garrison Keillor's trademark humor.
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The latest collection of Lake Wobegon short stories gathered from live broadcasts include Confirmation Sunday, the church directory photos, Pastor Ingqvist's leather bound sermons along with song lyrics and the "95 Theses," among others. Companion audio also available.
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