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Combining practical insights from the real business world together with the academic theory and research that underlie methods and techniques, this innovative book prepares readers for the rigors of leading people in just about any situation, not just organizations -- i.e., it trains leaders to think before they act. From assessment through implementation, it focuses on four competencies -- specific behavior characteristics that delineate the "ingredients" of leadership: Directional Thinking, Consequential Thinking, Influence Strategies, and Communication Skills. Begins with a four-chapter Assessment in which readers provide information about how they would use the four Competencies to address specific situations, challenges, and dilemmas. Outlines a Relationship Life Cycle -- a flow chart, linked to a case study at each step, that depicts how relationships begin and evolve and how they either deal effectively with conflict and survive or ignore conflict and as a result allow it to escalate and destroy the relationship. Interpersonal communication skills are then explained and illustrated as a way to help leaders both prevent and resolve interpersonal conflict in both business and personal settings. Includes a Speaker Effectiveness Index -- that serves as both an assessment and development tool for better understanding and improving presentation skills. Includes T-Charts that explain and illustrate how to make a balanced decision. Contains a Q&A chapter that addresses frequently asked questions about leadership and -- in particular -- how to develop and implement a mentoring program in an organization using the 4 Competencies. For leaders, and aspiring leaders, in any type of organization or situation..

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A hands-on text for country living, this book contains detailed advice on everything from selecting a piece of land to raising livestock, from making wine from home-grown fruits to making fences strong and durable. Here is abundant advice from a real country homesteader, a book equally valuable for lifelong farm-dwellers or for the new-to-the-country city folks looking to set down roots.

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Best of its type.......2005-11-10

This writer captures the essence of homesteading in what is actually a rather short book. You don't need another reference if you want to be a homesteader.

Breadth without Depth.......2004-04-22

Charles Sanders has created a good primer for self-reliant country living. His material covers everything from required tools to canning to fences to homemade gift ideas. The breadth of the text is truly amazing - in 295 pages of text Sanders covers just about every aspect of establishing a homestead.

However, such breadth in so relatively few pages practically guarantees that no one subject will get its due. Winemaking, for example, receives only 11 pages and raising various varieties of livestock is covered in just 26 pages. In other words, this is an excellent book with which to start the process of establishing a homestead, but anyone intending to actually follow through will want to move on to more comprehensive sources fairly quickly. (Sanders displays his seeming love of trivia in a five page discussion of land measurements that inexplicably includes information on a historical method of measuring invented in 1620 by an English mathematician.)

One very helpful feature is the book's appendix, which offers sections on weights and measures, methods of figuring a variety of volumes and weights, a chart of the reproductive expectations for various animals and more. These charts alone are worth the price of the book. A second appendix of recommended reading and/or websites to turn to when the material mastered within would have rendered the text even more valuable, but Sanders has inexplicably left such a resource out. To be fair, some recommendations are sprinkled throughout the text but they are not as easily found as if they were compiled all together.

This should be your first book on moving to the country!.......2004-01-15

I would highly recommend this book to anyone thinking about getting some land and moving to the country. It covers all the basics of farming, raising livestock to building a farm pond.

It is written in a style that is conversational and his approach is "this is what has worked for me". Many books on the subject assume that you have some starter knowledge on the subject; this one covers the very basics for people that have grown up in the city or suburbs.

A must have book for homesteaders!.......2003-11-06

I agree with the 1st reviewer...great book! What I find handy is that after most chapter, the author includes a list of resources for further reading, just in case (not likely!) you find his coverage of the topic lacking. This book is great not just for homesteaders, but for any one who lives, or aspires to live, in the country! It covers some topics not covered in most other books of this type, including attending an auction, Country games and pastimes, tractors, atvs, and firearms, in addition to the "usual" homestead topics of water, food preservation, etc.
Buy this book now if you want to live in the country!

A great book!.......2003-11-05

This book is an absolute msut for homesteaders, weekend gardeners, hobby farmers, etc. Think of this as an up to date version of popular earlier works of this type.
Sanders' writing style is easy to read, and the book is chock full of good advice. Use just one or two of his ideas, and you'll more than pay for the price of the book!

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These proceedings are from the fifth workshop of a series that concentrated on optical CCDs for the first four installments. At this workshop, for the first time, our "bandpass" was broadened to include infrared detectors. Every leading manufacturer, all major astronomical observatories and the experts in the field gathered on the Big Island of Hawaii for a week long workshop dedicated to scientific detectors for astronomy. This book captures the spirit of a unique event that was both an intensive exchange of technical information and a very friendly gathering of a cooperative community. The state-of-the-art papers include the latest technologies from detector manufacturers, observatory plans, instrumentation applications, electronics, extremely large focal planes, testing techniques and space missions.

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Volumes 5 and 6 focus on simple and complex polysaccharides synthesized by organisms as storage compounds, cell wall constituents or compounds at the surfaces of cells. They describe biosynthesis, metabolism, biodegradation, functions, properties and applications of these biopolymers, covering such topics as: agar, alginates, alternan, carrageenan, cellulose, cell wall polysaccharides from fungi, fucogel, chitin, chitosan, curdlan, dextran, elsinan, emulsan, gellan, glycogen, glycolipids, glycopeptides, gums, hemicellulose, hyaluronan, inulin, levan, lipopolysaccharides and other eps, peptidoglycans from archaea and bacteria, pectin, pullulan, schizophyllan, scleroglucan, succinoglycan, starch, teichoic acids, teichuronic acids, xanthan.

Biopolymers: Volume 6, Polysaccharides II: Polysaccharides from Eukaryotes

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Biopolymers: Volume 6, Polysaccharides II: Polysaccharides from Eukaryotes
E. J. Vandamme
Manufacturer: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MUT1FI

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In a stochastic network, such as those in computer/telecommunications and manufacturing, discrete units move among a network of stations where they are processed or served. Randomness may occur in the servicing and routing of units, and there may be queueing for services. This book describes several basic stochastic network processes, beginning with Jackson networks and ending with spatial queueing systems in which units, such as cellular phones, move in a space or region where they are served. The focus is on network processes that have tractable (closed-form) expressions for the equilibrium probability distribution of the numbers of units at the stations. These distributions yield network performance parameters such as expectations of throughputs, delays, costs, and travel times. The book is intended for graduate students and researchers in engineering, science and mathematics interested in the basics of stochastic networks that have been developed over the last twenty years. Assuming a graduate course in stochastic processes without measure theory, the emphasis is on multi-dimensional Markov processes. There is also some self-contained material on point processes involving real analysis. The book also contains rather complete introductions to reversible Markov processes, Palm probabilities for stationary systems, Little laws for queueing systems and space-time Poisson processes. This material is used in describing reversible networks, waiting times at stations, travel times and space-time flows in networks. Richard Serfozo received the Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University in 1969 and is currently Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to that he held positions in the Boeing Company, Syracuse University, and Bell Laboratories. He has held

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"This Shows What Really Makes A Hero"

A somewhat boring testament to the greatest submariner.

The Bravest Man!

Submariners of World War 2...a look at the mind of some

the bravest skipper remembered

The Bravest Man: The Story of Richard O'Kane & U.S. Submariners in the Pacific War (Unabridged)
William Tuohy
Manufacturer: audible.com
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Binding: Audio Download
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Wake of the Wahoo: The Heroic Story of America's Most Daring WWII Submarine, USS Wahoo

ASIN: B0006IU3P8

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"This Shows What Really Makes A Hero".......2003-08-19

An excellent presentation by Mr. Tuohy on all aspects of the submarine war in the Pacific, focusing on Dick O'Kane. All the people involved were brought to life, their courage, fears and worries all on display. Many of the combat scenes were well written, showing how hunting Japanese ships could turn into an all-day affair, and the frusrtation at times when torpedoes miss or malfuction. You felt the fear and the jolts of depth charge attacks, always wondering if the next one would have your name on it. I also liked how Tuohy highlighted all the problems that plagued the sub service, from malfunctioning torpedoes to inept and vain commanders, to sub skippers having to be relieved because they crack under pressure.

Dick O'Kane was not superman. He was just a dedicated guy who took his job seriously and did whatever it took to hurt the Japanese. It was also something to see how innovative O'Kane and his ilk were. When you're all alone in the middle of hostile territory, you gotta do what you can in order to survive.

All in all, a great testament to the men who sacrificed so much so we can enjoy our freedom today.

A somewhat boring testament to the greatest submariner........2002-12-23

This book is at least aptly titled. Richard O'Kane was one of our country's greatest and most audacious naval heros. O'Kane also authored his own, brilliantly written and unsurpassed account of the wartime patrols of the USS Tang in "Clear The Bridge!" "The Bravest Man" unfortunately pales in comparison in terms of style, readability, and suspense. Most annoying to me were the author's frequent and interruptive digressions and flashbacks from O'Kane's incredible carreer aboard Wahoo and Tang, back and forth to the more general history of the U.S. pacific submarine force, the politics of the admirals and their inept tactical mandates, other famous and not-so-famous boats and crews, O'Kane's years as a midshipman at Annapolis, etc. Most of this just distracted me from the book's central portrayal of O'Kane as "the bravest man." I also noticed that some sentences were copied and sprinkled throughout the book, making the same point, as if the author didn't remember having made them before. This is definitely not Pulitzer Prize material, in my opinion. My recomendation is to put this submarine book at the bottom of your list, and instead buy O'Kane's own "Clear The Bridge!", in my opinion the best written, most authentic, most audacious, most suspenseful, can't-put-it-down submarine book I have ever read.

The Bravest Man!.......2002-11-23

I have read the books on the Wahoo, and the Tang. I saw this book on Amazon.com, & knew I had to have it. This book is Great! There are things in this book that are not covered in the others. Not only was the exploits of O'Kane in submarines great, his leadership when he was a prisoner of the Japanese shows what kind of man he really was. I could not put this book down. The only reason it took 3 days to read was because I had to go to work during those days! The author does give you some timelines along with what O'Kane wss doing with his boats. You can follow along during the war for the whole book. This is a must read book if you read about submarines PERIOD!

Submariners of World War 2...a look at the mind of some.......2002-11-09

At first look I was hoping this would be the book that would answer some questions...It did do that but being my appetite was whetted I wanted more. I found myself asking questions about Cmdr Morton, O'Kane and others. What was their life like before WW2. Some questions were answered but there are holes. As for Mr Tuohy's book it did give the reader a real look at this duo. These two men were feared and respected for their toughness. I would like to see more books like this that cover the different schools of thought in WW2 submarine warfare. It is a great book and it does shed light...I just want more, with the pasing of Forest Sterling, may he rest with his Wahoo comrades in peace, we are losing valuable pieces to a great puzzle of World War 2 and in Mush's memory and Rear Admiral O Kane
Enjoy this book but be warned youll want to read more!

the bravest skipper remembered.......2002-09-02

"It's a big ocean," Dick O'Kane once told me. "You don't have to find the enemy if you don't want to."

O'Kane was 60 when we met. He was a compact man, straight as a ramrod, with a small smile and bushy eyebrows. He loved to talk, especially on technical matters, but he seldom spoke about what it was like to be a submariner in the Pacific, in a war that claimed the lives of 22% of the Americans who went to sea in the pig boats, as submarines were called. It was a pleasure to meet him again in "The Bravest Man" and to learn more about his remarkable accomplishments in World War II.

That a submariner need not find the enemy was brought home to O'Kane in 1942 on his first patrol in Wahoo, under an older captain who had learned caution in the peacetime Navy. The cautious skipper was replaced by Dudley "Mush" Morton, who with O'Kane's support made Wahoo the deadliest American boat in the Pacific, sinking nine ships on one ferocious patrol through the Yellow Sea, between China and Korea. "You can't afford to flinch," Morton said; "you can't afford to give up. You must constantly keep 'rassling, and keep shooting till you destroy him."

Wahoo was later lost with all hands, not including O'Kane, who by then -- the fall of 1943 -- had command of Tang. He soon proved that he too had a great desire to keep 'rassling and to sink Japanese ships, despite the second-rate torpedoes supplied to American submarines. On its first patrol, Tang sank five ships; on its second, it rescued 22 American airmen, shot down in the battle for Truk at the center of the Pacific's Caroline Islands. On its fourth patrol, it set a U.S. record by sending 10 enemy ships to the bottom, despite new torpedoes that were sometimes as balky as the old.

As a skipper, Richard O'Kane was audacious, persistent and inventive. He was willing to go up against the shore, if that's where the enemy was to be found. Yet he always had an escape route in mind -- and he took care of his people. Sailors clamored to join Tang, despite its record of going in harm's way.

Alas, having a good captain is never enough. On Tang's fifth patrol, the odds caught up with O'Kane, and he had the unhappy experience of watching his 24th and last torpedo circle back to explode on the boat's stern. The men on the bridge were thrown into the water, but their troubles were scarcely over. It was the middle of the night, and they had no flotation gear.

When morning came, 9 of the 87 crewmen were still alive, including some who had made the first-ever escape from a submarine sunk in combat. They were picked up by a Japanese destroyer, whose captain treated them decently but delivered them to starvation, torture and slave labor at Yokohama. Like aviators, submariners were classified as "special prisoners of Japan," imprisoned in the foulest camps with their existence unreported to the International Red Cross. Again O'Kane survived the impossible, to be reunited with his family and to receive the Medal of Honor from the hand of President Harry Truman.

The author of "The Bravest Man" is himself a U.S. Navy veteran, who in 1968 won the Pulitzer as a reporter in Vietnam. Mr. Tuohy takes a curious approach to his story, first writing about Wahoo, then O'Kane's earlier life, and finally Tang and later events, interrupted by chapters on what the rest of the American sub pack was doing. This can sometimes be confusing. And the line-editing in the book is sometimes careless. But "The Bravest Man" is well worth reading, especially in a year when the USS O'Kane is on watch in the Arabian Sea, carrying the bravest man's name and legacy into the 21st century.

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inspirational surgeon

Yey granddad!

Great doctoring

Surgery of the Soul: Reflections on a Curious Career
Joseph Murray
Manufacturer: NEALE WATSON PUBLISHERS
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Binding: Hardcover

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inspirational surgeon.......2007-05-30

As a surgical trainee, i find this book truly inspirational. Murray combines being a surgeon and his private life in a way which is synergistic to produce the best possible outcome. But what transpired most was his natural surgical talent and conviction to things he believe is true. As a read, the book uses simple language and any reader will feel as if Murray is telling his story verbally.

Yey granddad!.......2002-05-23

This book is a wonderful read. I learned a lot about his career. And it opened up a whole new life to me. For all 20 years of my life so far, I have seen Granddad as only a grandfather, but reading this showed me what his life was like before we grandkids came along. He has done so much more than I could ever have imagined before.
Its an inspirational book from start to finish.

Great doctoring.......2002-05-09

Great doctoring involves a high level of technical skill combined with an ability to treat the patient as a whole, body and mind. Joe Murray's relationships with his patients makes this book a must read for anyone involved with the medical profession, as a doctor or a patient.

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Surgery of the Soul: Reflections on a Curious Career
M.D. Murray Joseph E.
Manufacturer: Science History Publications/USA
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Surgery of the Soul: Reflections on a Curious Career
M.D. Murray Joseph E.
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Inside the Campaign to Terrorize America Who is Osama bin Laden--the only terrorist leader ever to have declared a holy war against America? What drives him and those he leads to hate a West that helped enrich and arm them? Bin Laden's name has been linked to a number of incidents that have cost Americans their lives, including the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 and the destruction of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Now, he is linked to the recent catastrophic assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Here is a comprehensive account of the rise of bin Laden. In meticulous detail, world-renowned terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky uncovers the events in bin Laden's life that turned the once-promising engineering student into a cold-blooded leader of radical Islam. In the process, Bodansky reveals a chilling story that is as current as today's headlines but as ancient as the Crusades--a story that transcends bin Laden and any other single man. This book is a sobering wake-up call.

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Yossef Bodansky comenzó a estudiar la personalidad de un joven llamado Osama bin Laden en 1981. "A mediados de la década de los 80, me encontraba en Londres conversando con un amigo islamita de origen árabe. En esa época, él era todavía un combatiente activo por la causa afgana. Visitaba Londres para recibir tratamiento médico por una herida recibida en combate. Hablamos sobre su experiencia en Afganistán y el nombre de Osama bin Laden apareció en nuestra conversación: 'Es un hombre único', dijo mi amigo. 'Puedes notarlo en su mirada. Está trabajando por Alah como nadie más. Es un verdadero guerrero de Dios'. Tras una breve pausa, añadió: 'Ponle mucha atención. Si no lo matan pronto, llegará lejos. Será un gran líder de la jihad porque no teme a nadie, excepto a Alah.' Desde entonces, he puesto especial atención en Osama bin Laden."

El presente libro es el resultado de cerca de 30 años de análisis puntual sobre bin Laden y el entorno que determina su actividad, no una obra que se redacta en días para satisfacer las necesidades editoriales tras un suceso como el ocurrido el 11 de septiembre. Por lo tanto, el lector se encontrará sin duda ante la obra más completa que en su género pueda encontrar, adentrándose en el complejo mundo de los fundamentalistas musulmanes, en el contexto sociohistórico que ha determinado su actuación y conociendo, muchas veces en versiones de primera mano, el entramado de los grupos terroristas que han declarado la guerra a Estados Unidos en particular y a Occidente en general. Sólo con la ayuda de un libro como el de Bodansky, se puede llegar a tener una idea de los móviles que llevaron a que bin Laden dejara de lado una vida respetable como heredero de una de las constructoras más importantes del Medio Oriente, para vivir oculto en una cueva con sus quince hijos y cuatro esposa!s, con un rudimentario sistema de calefacción que apenás basta para soportar el invierno afgano y siempre atento a los intentos de homicidio, a acciones de comando y ataques aéreos por parte de sus oponentes.

Al tiempo que Bodansky detalla los sucesos que desviaron el destino de bin Laden para dejar la promisoria práctica de la ingeniería y convertirse en un líder sanguinario del islamismo radical, el autor revela una historia estremecedora, tan actual como los encabezados de los periódicos y, al mismo tiempo, tan antigua como las Cruzadas, una historia que trasciende a bin Laden y a cualquier otro individuo. En suma, esta obra es una llamada de alerta para toda la sociedad.

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Bin Laden: su refugio, sus sucesores, sus redes, su poder...(libro)(TT: Bin Laden: his refuge, his succesors, his net, his power.)(TA: book)(Reseña): An article from: Proceso

Manufacturer: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
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ASIN: B0008IJFMI
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Proceso, published by CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V. on November 11, 2001. The length of the article is 5034 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Bin Laden: su refugio, sus sucesores, sus redes, su poder...(libro)(TT: Bin Laden: his refuge, his succesors, his net, his power.)(TA: book)(Reseña)
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 11, 2001
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
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Article Type: Reseña

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Against the tumultuous backdrop of early Texas history, Williams sketches a vivid portrait of a truly American legend. Map.

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SUPERBLY written, researched.......2001-02-01

I'm not sure if the first reviewer read the same book that I did. As a doctoral student in history, I have read many history books and must defend Williams's book as SUPERBLY written and carefully researched; Williams obviously wrote this book for a larger audience. Such an excellent combination of readability and academic rigor is the envy of every serious historian.

I highly recommend this biography for the causal reader and the serious scholar, which certainly ranks among the best bios of Sam Houston to date.

Expertly written and researched.......2001-02-01

I'm not sure if the first reviewer read the same book that I did. As a doctoral student in history, I have read many history books and must say this was a SUPERBLY written and researched account. Williams's prose is highly accessible to the average reader, while meeting the rigors of serious academic work. An excellent book for the casual reader and scholar alike.

Poorly Written.......2000-09-17

This book is so poorly written I stopped reading it after the first 80 pages or so. Some background information provided at the beginning is interesting, but the book failed to hold my interest--a remarkable feat, given how fascinating a man Sam Houston is. A much better biography is Sword of San Jacinto, by Marshall de Bruhl.

An Almost Forgotten, Yet Fascinating, Texan Populist.......2000-09-04

Who is the Houston, the city, and Houston, the popular street in Manhattan named after, anyway?

This fascinating and highly readerable biography retells the legend of Sam Houston, the controversial governor of Tennessee and Texas, the first president of the Republic of Texas, and a protege of Andrew Jackson. Williams' recreates the political and historical atmosphere of Manifest Destiny era in a critical, yet sympathetic biography that should become a standard work for 19th century history buffs. Williams portrays Houston as a charmistic man and alcoholic, a distrustful populist, and an authentic American hero who tried to keep Texas in the Union.

Williams' Houston is also an easy target for revisionist historians looking for expansionist villains. An occassional supporter of the Know Nothing party, Houston defended slavery and advocated a war with Mexico to unite all Americans in 1860. It was a futile effort to both prevent the Civil War and become president of the United States. Williams suggests that Houston's temper and penchant for secrecy blocked his highest political ambitions.

Williamns' vibrant biography illuminates the enduring appeal (and danger) of an authentic military hero and populist politician. Full of memorable quotes and extensive resource notes, this compelling biography is the kind of first rate history that tantalizes readers with absorbing "what ifs" and the lost possibilities of a distant time and place.

I learned a great deal reading this book and highly recommend it. Books like this demonstrate how many great stories remain untold or forgotten in our history - even when cities and streets are named after yesterday's idols.

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This is the true story of a married man from a patrician southern family who left his wife and two children to set up home with a younger man among the mountain people of the Blue Ridge Mountains in South Carolina. Their story confounds many stereotypes, prejudices and expectations - not only with regard to homosexuality itself, but also to general attitudes and responses to it. The story has all the elements of high drama - including their induction into "mountain ways", battles with the "Georgia Mafia", and a court action brought by the estranged wife. There are a number of surprising twists and turns,including the fact that they became the first same-sex couple in their state (and possibly in America) to host the annual county debutantes' coming out party.

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