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February 22, 2006

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Maureen McCabe

February 26, 2006 - 'Hearts in Atlantis'

Bonnie,

I wanted to comment on this days ago and just kept forgetting... I needed to look up the name of the book. One of the intertwined stories in Stephen King's 'Hearts in Atlantis' is about panhandling for profit. That particular story line is not in the movie but it is in the book.

I am not a big Stephen King fan. I was when I was a teenager. He has written and co-written a couple of great books since I stopped reading EVERYTHING he wrote. I don't know if Hearts in Atlantis is a great book but it has great twists and turns and there is this thing about a panhandler. It is not a gorey book...like some SK novels, The END... to my literary critique...and on to sociology and geography ; -) Sorry this is long I will get somewhere. Maybe.

When I moved to Columbus (in 1990) I believe that was the first time I saw the panhandlers with signs at off ramps. I wondered at first if it was a sociology experiment for awhile. I did not remember seeing them in Dayton OH, Akron OH, Green Bay WI, Rockford IL or Madison WI. Then after I realized it was not a sociology experiment I wondered if it was city size...or just came in vogue or if it was there and I just did not see it previously. I had seen it in NYC and other big cities.

I enjoyed your blog Bonnie and if I would have looked at the book shelf and read the spine on the Stephen King book I could have commented days earlier! I enjoyed "your panhandlers" honesty. Gene in Chicagoland blogged about your blog (I bet they have panhandlers there.)

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