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1. I was conceived in Santa Claus, Indiana as a Vietnam War draft dodge. It worked.

2. Were it not for my cat, I might not be around today. He is quite the cat.

3. My maternal grandfather was a health physicist with the Atomic Energy Commission. It’s still unclear exactly what he did, but he would send my mother postcards from blast sites. When my mom was a little girl, she once handled plutonium buttons in one of them boxes where you stick your hands into those big lead gloves. Their relationship was not good. Read the rest of this entry →