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  • A Charmed Life, Amid Order and Disorder
    Bennett Lear Fairorth
    The author, 83 and a widower, drives from a northern suburb of Philadelphia, Pa. to take his oldest daughter Jane to a lunch for Mother’s Day 2010. Her two grown children live in other states. Jane, 61, is a recent grandmother. The author is a recent great-grandfather. A former teacher of high school English, the author retired in 1991 and for about 10 years traveled extensivel...
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    18,98 €

  • Hi, and Thanks for Your Latest Letter
    Bennett Lear Fairorth
    The first letter received by the author, dated September 9, 1988, is from a former student from 1977 who sends happy-birthday wishes, and condolences for a double tragedy.The last 2 letters are both written Easter Sunday 2010: one, by the author to his friend Rudy. They met in first grade in September 1932; their friendship has lasted 78 years.The other letter is from the young...
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  • West by Southwest
    Lear Fairorth Bennett Lear Fairorth
    The author, 81, a retired English teacher, decides to leave his several volunteer tasks for the community to fly west from Abington, Pennsylvania, 12 miles north of Philadelphia, to visit a granddaughter in Las Vegas, Nevada; a sister in Portland, Oregon; an older son in San Francisco, California; and a younger son in Austin, Texas, and the people these 4 live with. He is sure ...
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    20,78 €

  • The Aardvark’s Grunt, the Author’s Murmur.
    Bennett Lear Fairorth
    In 1986, about 20 years ago, Brent Forrester, retired high school English teacher, and a widower, bought a second-hand jacket in a thrift store in Philadelphia. It had the logo of an aardvark on one pocket. Over the years he came to see it as a kind of good-look charm for his post-retirement volunteer duties, tutoring several young men for the GED or high school equivalency dip...
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    16,32 €

  • Philadelphia Holidays 2004, Turkish Pleasures 1997
    Bennett Lear Fairorth
    Events that take place between Thanksgiving Day 2004 and New Year’s Day 2005 to Brent Franklin, 78, alternate with events that take place on a two-week escorted tour of Turkey in 1997. ...
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    18,51 €

  • Dear Jon - Letters to and from a Former Teacher
    Bennett Lear Fairorth
    Enjoy the humorous and insightful comments and observations of two friends who exchange letters. ...
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    22,90 €

  • Scandinavian September Sixty-Nine
    Bennett Lear Fairorth
    For his 69th birthday in 1993, Raymond Foster, a widower and retired high school English teacher, receives a present of an 18-day escorted tour of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland from his four children.He joins 24 others, a newlywed couple from Maine, a young man whose presence is connected to a bet, four retired women in their early 60s from Minneapolis (three widows and ...
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    20,00 €

  • 3 Pianists, 2 Friends, 1 Name, 497 Charities
    Bennett Lear Fairorth
    At a piano recital, Roger Lewis, a widower and retired English teacher, meets Monica Appelbaum, who graduated from high school with him in 1942 and Louis Ornstein, whom Roger has known since they started college. During Roger’s ride home with Monica to the northern suburbs, she has a vertigo attack. Roger is able to help her and in gratitude, Monica calls Roger and begins a pho...
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    17,73 €

  • The Land Where My American Mother Died--Palermo, Sicily
    Bennett Lear Fairorth
    Larry Abbott, 75, a widower and retired English teacher, takes a two-week tour of Italy and Sicily in the spring of 2002, hoping to visit his mother’s grave in Palermo after two earlier attempts since 1990 failed. ...
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    17,39 €