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Chapter 52, Part 5: Are You Sitting Down?
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 Part 5 Evidence...
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Acknowledgements
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir : by Dave Bexfield This initial version of acknowledgements, a living document, features those who...
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Chapter 52, Part 2: Are You Sitting Down?
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield The concluding chapter of Sit Down Before Reading has been broken into five parts...
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Chapter 52, Part 3: Are You Sitting Down?
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield The concluding chapter of Sit Down Before Reading has been broken into five parts...
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Chapter 52, Part 4: Are You Sitting Down?
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield The concluding chapter of Sit Down Before Reading has been broken into five parts...
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Chapter 52: Are You Sitting Down?
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield The concluding chapter of Sit Down Before Reading has been broken into five parts...
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Chapter 51: The Bexfield Twist
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield I can still recite the TJ Fannon Heating & Cooling-sponsored starting nine from memory. Eddie Bunn pitching, Luis Gonzales catching, his brother Riggo at third, John Schott at short, me at second, Andy (what’s his last name again?) at first. Patrolling the outfield: Jeff Persell, Buck Blackburn, and Joe Hamidi. The coach: Dad. He had the hairbrained idea of assembling a ragtag baseball team of high schoolers in the twilight
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Chapter 50: Boxed In
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Disbelief. Incredulity. Skepticism. Extreme dubiousness. C’mon, a lone, renegade...
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Chapter 49: The Reckoning
Sit Down Before Reading, A Memoir by Dave Bexfield As a cub reporter for a freshly launched business newspaper, I was responsible for...
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Chapter 48: Hallelujah Booyah
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield In 1993, Laura and I arrived on the shores of South Africa. We were among the students...
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Chapter 47: Little Sparks
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield When you get diagnosed with an incurable, chronic disease, it’s only natural to seek...
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Chapter 46: The Smoking Flamethrower
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Demi Moore was just going to have to wait for me, I wrote in a 2016 blog post. In...
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Chapter 45: The Smoking Gun
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield The mid-1970s were awash in memorable firsts for this writer. The first, and so far...
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Part IV: Introduction
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Bexfield Twist /(beks-feeld) twist/ n. A wildly unanticipated turn of events or...
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Chapter 44: The Immaculate Storm
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield I kept shaking my hands and stuffing them deeper into pockets, but they refused to...
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Chapter 43: Brian
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield In third grade I kept a diary. For two days. (During the fall of 1976 I kept getting...
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Chapter 42: Eleven
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Rob is a seasoned high school math teacher, an accomplished outdoorsman, and a...
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Chapter 41: Copious Mischief
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield It started as a trickle. Then they arrived with regularity. Before long, the horror...
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Chapter 40: Antidotes
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield My wife Laura is a brilliant scientist. Not kind of brilliant, brilliant-brilliant....
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Chapter 39: The Goldilocks Zone
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Days after I discovered I had Lyme disease and not multiple sclerosis, struggling to...
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Chapter 38: Bad Apple
Sit Down Before Reading: A Memoir by Dave Bexfield Lyme disease has been around since before mankind, and certainly before proverbs about...
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