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I never dreamed of owning a bookstore or three. I had much broader and adventurous aspirations: following nomadic reindeer herders in Siberia on a Watson Fellowship, climbing Denali in Alaska, driving the Hippie trail over the Khyber Pass in Afghanistan to Istanbul that my dad so badly wanted to do with our family in 1971…
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Traveling though Chicago’s O’Hare Airport in 2017, on our way to our son’s wedding in the San Juan Islands, I say to my husband, “I have to stop here to buy a Spanx.” “What’s a Spanx?” Ben asks. “It’s like a girdle,” I tell him. In my bag is a slim, silk, azure blue dress…
Annie Philbrick 