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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...
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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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