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In an age where people don't exchange mail anymore, I'm trying to deliver good news to weary souls. So sit back in a rocker, and I'll be around once a week with a poem or a story.

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About Samuel Schaefer

Journalist and poet living in Tallahassee; published in the American Spectator, Voeglin View, Ekphrastic Review, Merion West

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