See right now I'd love to be reading your book, your poems, your reflections ... whatever they might be, because to me your writing is like one of those beautiful flowing healthy rivers, bending and twisting as it needs to, and pulling me a long in its journey.

In my head we're sitting together, maybe a glass of wine in hand, and everything is as it should be, natural, not contrived, and your talking to me, a friend.

There's no one person who writes as you do, Linda Caroll. You stand out for all the right reasons.

And guess what? It;s why you earned $500 for one piece, all those years ago.

Your mama was wrong, but wrong for all the right reason, because she cared, because she worried, and just maybe because you reminded you of her. But in the end, how proud she was of you.

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