Why did she take accordion lessons? Because her dad was a big Myron Floren fan!

The Permanent Fatherly/Daughterly Record
Or: In memoriam

Eos: “Subject: Missing Dad.

“My dad worked the ‘swing shift’ as a mechanic at Northwest Airlines when I was a little kid. He got home about 11:30 p.m. He always stayed up for a while and read the newspaper at the kitchen table. Sometimes I got up, and he’d give me some milk and a cookie, and we would talk. I just loved that special alone time with him.

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There are 8,499,999 stories (plus 1) in the Naked City. You are about to read one cheery Midwesterner’s!

 

Welcome to New York!

KH of White Bear Lake reports: “Our daughter moved to New York City to start a job in Brooklyn in August.

“One piece of advice she was given was that New York was not the Midwest: When you meet people on the sidewalk, you do not make eye contact, and you do not say anything.

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