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Almost forty years ago, I owned a small house in the Greenwich “backcountry” just a few miles from the Westchester County Airport. One morning, I was talking on the phone with a friend whom I would see later in the … Continue reading → The post DONALD TRUMP & EVIL – A Post-Halloween / Election-Eve Story appeared first on There are two types of architecture—good architecture, and the other kind.
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