5 a.m. Stories

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Lifelong journalist's stories he can't stop telling himself... Romance, humor and a wide, razzle-dazzle world....

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About Robert Basler

Lifelong journalist, more than 30 years with Reuters, a wealth of experiences from interviewing Kurt Vonnegut to Dolly Parton, and much, much more. Traveled the world, now living in a historic Tudor home haunted by an actual Baroness.

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