Watching the Cubs play in San Francisco I now believe my Left Coast correspondent, Elaine, who claimed she was wearing a leather jacket and that it is cold in the Bay area. Here is Chicago we sweat and swat, sweat and swat. By the end of our conversation I learned that Elaine has written a book and we pledged to swap books. In a fit of “if I do this I can stop and buy ice cream” I packaged up “Tears, Fears and Arrowheads” and ‘A Girl named Zippy” one of the best and funniest memoirs ever, and paid a lot to mail it to Elaine. I remembered that her book is about a girl growing up heavy. I still went for the ice cream, but bought the smallest box of an overly sweet Pralines and Cream flavor.
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