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Here is the book that only natalie woods sister could have written a warm but unflichingly candid account of a great stars passionate love affairs, violent fights, stormy marriages, bitter divorces and her controversial death by drowning at the age of 43. While reading johns chronicle, he brought my own memories of a generally golden time growing up in the temperate clime of socal and in the halls of parochial school to the forefront of my. Author interview john grogan, author of the longest trip. Jan 01, 2007 the audio book version of the longest trip home. Mennonite in a little black dress a memoir of going home. An affable, unassuming rabble rouser, the author who penned a bestseller about his goofy dog gets up to some hilarious antics of his own in a new comingof age memoir, the longest trip home. John grogan the story of a son in the makinga universal journey of love, faith, and family that explores what it means to break away and find the way home once again. A memoir from the worlds largest community of readers. But even money says his publisher gets a tiein volume to pointofpurchase displays by fathers day.
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