Miss Effie's Diary Substack by Cathy Linker Lafrenz | Insights from Sidestack

Miss Effie's Diary

About the Substack

Picking flowers and picking myself up ... life as a widow

About Cathy Linker Lafrenz

Aging flower child from the east coast of Iowa.

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