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Manchester
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Fountain pen
From the Editor
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Coming full circle
can’t imagine a better office view. Every day I see the fountain where, in 1950, my
father proposed marriage to my mother. A circle of plantings and benches borders the
fountain, a reminder that life can be a circle.
At 55, I still can’t decide if my return to Manchester 5½ years ago was destiny, fate,
divine intervention, pure accident or dumb luck. My professors of the late 1970s got me
thinking about those Big Questions and I’ve never stopped. A certified lifelong learner, I’ve made
peace with not having the answers, and not needing to.
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What I do know is that I’m back at Manchester. Back where my parents fell in love because
they were assigned adjacent chapel seats. Back where my birth family started in a World War II
surplus trailer. Back where my brother, sister, niece and a company of relatives spent powerful,
transformative years.
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Dad is back, too. At 84, he moved into a retirement community down the street to be near my
sister and me, surrounded by a circle of f