LoKackl has been a member since
April 7 2009,
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Lois Kackley
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This member's top-ranked page is "She Asked For Footed Pajamas and Then the Fun Began".
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I am from Amherst, Massachusetts, where I retired a couple of years ago after living in the South for all of life before. LoisHistory: BA in journalism/mass communication and former newspaper journalist. Also, former manufacturers' wholesale representative, retail-store manager, retail-on-the-floor (sell, sell, sell!!). I started reading and studying Emily Dickinson poetry in my...
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