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Nancy Roman

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O Christmas Pan!

Time for Christmas reruns… Here’s my favorite Christmas story. To my husband’s chagrin, I tell it often.   O CHRISTMAS PAN!   I met my husband in November 1989. By Christmas, we were pretty much living together.  We weren’t kids – he was in his forties and I was thirty-eight. So we didn’t see much …

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Best Christmas Ever

My novel, JUST WHAT I ALWAYS WANTED, is completely fiction. Almost. In the book, Cynthia (the main character) listens to her sister Angela’s remembrance of one long-ago Christmas. Out of 92,000 words, this little anecdote – less than 800 words – is the one little bit of truth. A not-so-fictionalized account of the Christmas when …

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O Christmas Pan!

Time for Christmas reruns…. Here’s my favorite Christmas story. To my husband’s chagrin, I tell it often.   O CHRISTMAS PAN! I met my husband in November 1989. By Christmas we were pretty much living together.  We weren’t kids – he was in his forties and I was thirty-eight. So we didn’t see much sense …

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I Hope He Kept The Receipt

My husband and I are having the BEST disagreement EVER! My sweet and exasperating husband has a tendency to go a little overboard sometimes.  Which drives me crazy when it is dicing vegetables or watering the plants. When it is buying me presents – well –  I can tolerate it. This year he outdid himself.  …

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