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| Male |
| July 20 |
| Pennsylvania |
| Retired from careers in retail sales, banking, and higher education... curious, animal lover (except snakes), adventurous eater... half Pennsylvania Dutch, half Scots...so-so housekeeper... married for five days back in the 1980s... transitioning to senior housing |
| sporadic at best... work mostly early mornings before the world gets started... trying to learn dialogue |
| Light-hearted, family-friendly, quirky characters |
| Reading, writing, old movies, music, WWII, Holocaust, gardening, birds, animals, cooking, baking, seeing how long I can last before I'm forced to clean my living space, NYT crossword puzzles, constantly striving to learn new ideas, words |
| www.amazon.com |
| www.nytimes.com |
| www.google.com |
| Non-fiction, biography, humor, true crime |
| Confederacy of Dunces, Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Marjorie Morningstar, Youngblood Hawke, Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Hotel New Hampshire, Gone With the Wind |
| Herman Wouk, John Irving, Gail Parent, Truman Capote, Dorothy Parker, E.B. White, William Safire, P.G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Steve Martin |
| Dr. Seuss, Ogden Nash |
| 1)"Kids, keep it down. I'm trying to iron in here!" -Edna Turnblad, "Hairspray".. 2)"Is she taller than you?" -my mother to my brother who was marrying a woman from Malaysia.. |
| Gershwin (George and Ira), Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Cole Porter, Barbra Streisand, Mozart, Copland, Lady GaGa, Glenn Miller, Patsy Cline, Steven Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Barber's "Adagio for Strings", Kander and Ebb |
| Funny Girl, Auntie Mame, Airplane, Life is Beautiful, Everything is Illuminated, Steel Magnolias, All About Eve, La Cage aux Folles, Trouble with Angels, PeeWee's Big Adventure, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Chicago, Schindler's List |
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