Wordgathering

A Journal of Disability Poetry

Volume 4     Issue 4     December 2010

INDEX OF AUTHORS

Below is an alphabetical list of all of the poets who have been published in Wordgathering, including the names of their poems and the issue in which they were published indicated by the month (March, June, September, December) and last two digits of the year. These are followed by lists of the book reviews, essays, interviews, photography, and book excerpts that have been published. An asterisk (*) next to a poets name indicates that he or she has been published in one of these others genres in addition to poetry.

Poetry

  • Millicent Borges Accardi*,The Body Music of Thalidomide (M07)
  • Indira Allegra, Withdrawal from Paxil into June (M07); Seasonal Affective Disorder (J08); Anointed (M08)
  • Natalie Altman, I'd Rather Be Bi-Coastal (M08)
  • Peter Austin, In the Glass; The Perfect Child (J07)
  • Trish Ayer*, The Cradle (D07)
  • Glenda Barrett, Family Ties (J07); Four Poems (M10)
  • Jennifer Bartlett*, A Field Guide to the Body (S07)
  • Michael Basile , Laundry Room Enigma; Precious Few (D09)
  • Jeanette Beale, Untitled Insomnia; Aftershocks (D08)
  • Mandy Beattie, Take My Hand; Cotton Wool (S09); Your Looks Belie You (D09); Be Still (D10)
  • Mike Berger, Adaptation (J10)
  • Cathy Best, Untitled (S08)
  • Sheila Black*, What You Mourn(M07); Epic (M10); Las Dos Fridas (S10); Psalm; How it Might have Happened (D10)
  • Ann Bogle* Basil Distance (M10)
  • Richard Boughton, Lost in Thought; Fate; Time (J08); Branch and Vine; The Season (D08)
  • Maria Brady-Smith, Invisible Tiger (J07)
  • Suzanne Bratcher, Gardening in MS (S08)
  • Jimmy Burns, Scrap Man; Exit Tune; Continuation of the Day (D09); Released; Grandma's Lincoln; Other Bloc (J10) Duel; Waiting for Repair of Electric Wheelchair (S10); The Darkness; Down/Up (D10)
  • Rebecca Carter, Moribund (J08)
  • Ron Cervero, Psych (S08)
  • C. E. Chaffin*, Too Many Voices; About the Bracelet (S08); Pantoum on Jack London's "To Build a Fire" (M09); Up late With My Haring Impaired Love; To His Love Asleep (J09)
  • Deborah Chenault-Green, No More Tears (J08)
  • Mbizo Chirasha, Scorpion rhythm of My Sting (J10)
  • Lisa J. Cihlar, A Cherry Tree; You and I Washing the Dog at Midnight (S08); Bone (D08)
  • John Lee Clark*, The Only Way Signing Can Kill Us (J09); On My Return from a Business Trip (J10)
  • John Thomas Clark*, Man Overboard; The Wicker Man; Take it Away (D07); Bogman; Out of Touch (M08)
  • Anita Cohen, The Last Time (J08)
  • Bob Coley, Jr., The hard steel rails... (S08)
  • Ned Condini, In the Farmer's Hut (S07)
  • Cheryl Conway, You Look So Good (M08)
  • Linda A. Cronin*, In the Beginning (D07); Dream Bones; Flash Essay on Beauty; Jersey Girl (M08); Fifth Grade Division; Memories (M09)
  • Barbara Crooker*, Listening to the Mockingbird (M07); The Mother of a Disabled Child Dreams of Respite (D07); The Knot Garden; Les Effets De Deige; Blues for Karen (M10); 45s, LPs (J10); Simile (S10); Frida Kahlo Speaks (D10)
  • Kareen Liez E. Datoy, Feel Marcello (S08)
  • Liz Dolan, A Half a Block Behind Him on the boardwalk (M09); My Three Year Old Grandson has Downs; May All Your Children Be Gymnasts (J09)
  • Dotty Holcomb Doherty, make Them Wonder (D09)
  • Trace Estes*, Shell-Shocked (S08)
  • Ann Eustace, BiPolar Roller Coaster (D09); Store Panic in Santa Land (D10)
  • Anna Evans*, Fruit Flies (M07, S08); Paean to My Flaws (D07); After the Surgery (M08); Beauty in the Unexpected (S09)
  • Ashley Ewing, Shadows (M09)
  • Jim Ferris*, And I Live in This Place (S09)
  • Rebecca Foust* ,The Visitation; Eighteen (D07); Empathy (D08); Books for the Blind; Fear (M09); Frog; Almost (D09); His First Death; Altoona to Anywhere (D10)
  • Linda Fuchs, The Deer is on the Wrong Side of the Fence (S07); Psych; Driftwood (J09); scattered; bi-polar (S09)
  • Eric Gadzinski, Matin; Tattoo (M08); Turbulence (M10)
  • Fran Gardner, Stumble Song; Coyote (M09); Lady With a Green Cane (J09)
  • Venetia Ghozlan, A Hostile Takeover; Morning Worship (S10); Pariah (J10)
  • Jade Gibson, Speakers (D08)
  • Yvette Green*,Hardsticks (J09)
  • Stephanie Green*, Crime Biscuits; Two Warriors and the Lost Words (D08)
  • Kathleen Grieger, Rummaging in the Mind; Checking Me Out (M08)
  • Ona Gritz*, There Among the Haves; Twelve Years Old, Swimming (S07); Stride Right; Night Brace; Hemiplegia II (J09); No; Prologue (J10); The Elephant and the Dove (S10)
  • Therese Halscheid*, Unsoundness of Mind (S07); The Never-Said Surgeon; White Sock (D07)
  • Mary Hamrick, Uncle Desi's Restaraunt Bar (Post War)
  • May Hansen, Same (M10)
  • Michael Hathaway, My New Career (M07)
  • Laura Hershey, Sunflowers (M07); Insomnia; Sticky History; Fear of Speaking (D10)
  • Christopher Jon Heuer, Balance in God's Wilderness (S10); Tree Hugger; Enhancements (D10)
  • Arden Eli Hill, Reprieve; Conversion/Cure (S08)
  • Barry J. L. Horton, 21st Century Invisible Man (10); Alarm Clock; Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Tom Hudgens*, Landscape of My Life (J10)
  • Dana Hirsch*, Got Him (M09)
  • Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Disorder (M09)
  • Todd Austin Hunt, Mural (S08)
  • Karla Huston, Lazarus (S08)
  • Lorraine Inabinett, Reckoning (D07)
  • Kathryn Jacobs, Schooling Raymond; Rinds; Tender Mercies (J08)
  • Donna Jagodzinski, 10:00 AM; Games (J08)
  • Leland Jamieson, Hearthstone in the Watershed (M08)
  • Liesl Jobson, Angels, the Voices (M07)
  • Maggie Jochild, Sago; Piedmont Ave. (J07)
  • Michael Lee Johnson, Mother Edith at 98; Red Stroked Survival with a Deadly Hammer (J09) ; Raindrop Baby; Fog Feathers (J10)
  • Elaine Jones, Good Advice if You Have Cerebral Palsy; Striped Deck Chairs (S10)
  • Patricia Wallace Jones, Asked If I can Tell How He Feels; Reducing Y0ur Anti-Psychotics (S09); Not How You Drive (J10)
  • Paul Kahn*, In Katharine's Room (M07); Sacrament (M10)
  • Anne Kaier*, Mother Love (D08); The Dressing Table (J09)
  • Marie Kane, Shards (S08)
  • Basanta Kar*, Faith First (M09)
  • Susan Keith, A Festive Holiday Photo; Chronicle from the Land of Maybes (S07)
  • Diane Kendig*, Speaking of Maria Blanchard; Wedding Portraits of Rivera and Kahlo; S Cento For Frida Kahlo's "Diego on My Mind" (S10)
  • Aaron Weir Kelstone, Ruminations of a Cyborg (M10)
  • Robin Kirk, Cold Harbor, 1991 (D10)
  • Donna Kiser, Breakfast of the Changing Mind (D08)
  • Tracy Koretsky*, A Gift of Balloons (M07); Naked, At 45 (S09)
  • Linda Kornasky, Spurning a Deaf Ear; Lucky Live Oaks (J08)
  • Judith Krum, I Wanted to See; They Live (D08); They Live; Impish Blues (M09)
  • Petra Kuppers*, The Origin of My Wheelchair (J07)
  • Ellen LaFleche*, Angel with Parkinson's Disease (M07); Saving Cinderella's Foot (D07); Audrey's Wig Emporium (D08); Taking My Six-Year-Old Son to the Dinosaur Cafe (D09)
  • Laurie Clements Lambeth*, Reluctant Pegaus; Undressing the Tree (D08)
  • Mark Langer, This Moses; Conversation (M10)
  • A. C. Leming, Dreams (D10)
  • P. A. Levy, An Answering Machine on Leave; Stickmen (J09)
  • Aurora Lewis, Life Scars; I Dream of Feet (M08); Puzzle Pieces (D08)
  • Diane Scott Lewis, Limbs and Other Pings (J08)
  • Antoinette Libro, Performance (D07)
  • Lyn Lifshin,When I Think of the Scar Where the Other Car Scalped My Forehead; When My Mother's Hair Grew Longer, Lush on IV; When I See Sarah Jessica Parker is Replaced By Joss Stone (S09)
  • Helen Lloyd, Barbara (J09)
  • Kirk Lumpkin, Who Dances in Daylight? (M08)
  • Raymond Luczak*, Hummingbird (J09)
  • James Magill, So It Goes, Nursing Home (D10)
  • Donal Mahoney , Siren; Returning to Work (J09); Stroke (S09); Busboy's Blues (D09)
  • Lisa M. Maloney, Alternative Reasoning (S08)
  • Olivia Mammone, Gray Girl (M09)
  • John C. Mannone, Leaving Shadows; A Sweet Kind of Blindness (D08); The Dogwood (D10)
  • Nikki Lee Manos, Milk Cartons, A Good Day (J07); Inheriting (M08)
  • H. E. Mantel, Synchrondipity? (D07)
  • Neil Marcus*, Why We Love (S07); Metaphor for Cripple (D08)
  • Miriam Mason, Quicksilver; Thread (J09); Repeat (S09)
  • Louise Mathewson*, A Day; Retreat; Lost (S07)
  • Steven McLachlan, Water Therapy; Explaining How I Feel to the Man with No Emotions (M10)
  • Jean McLeod, Forcing Amaryllis; Mania (S10); I Said, “I’m Busy”; Quicksilver (D10)
  • Stephen Mead, Wet Paint, Bathers (S10)
  • Marianne Meese, Ars Poetica (S08)
  • Michael Meyerhofer, The Man With One Ear Gets a Haircut (S08)
  • Kobus Moolman*, Overlooking the Block (M07); Cattle Truck; Aut da f; Winter Fires (S07); The Hand (D07)
  • Denise Morris, The Face of Parkinson's (M09)
  • Shannon Murray, Upright (J08)
  • Tendai Mwanaka*, Stolen From Death (D07); What Are You Waiting For? (S08); For Nigel; Milk with Marvin My Cat; Brutal Times (S09); My Brief Stint as a Terrorist; The Latest (D09)
  • Wendy Natkong, From EMS to MS (J08)
  • Nancy Owens Nelson, Autumn Musings on Multiple Sclerosis (D10)
  • Krista Nielsen, Madly Running (S08)
  • Ed Northen, Wounded Warriors Skiing (S07); Naked Me (D09)
  • Ken Nye, Singing in the Shower (J07)
  • Christine Parker, You Will Never Know (J08)
  • Steven Parker, Quasimodo's Eyes (J09)
  • Kay Peters, Something Happened (D10)
  • Kathy Pierce, The Ground We Stand On (S08)
  • Margaret Price, Collective Memory; Stick (M08); Fleshly School; Fist (J08)
  • Sienna Elizabeth Raimonde*, 80 and Alive (J08); This Cane; A Bruised Reed (D08); Jimmy and Me (M09)
  • Ashok Rajamani, How That Indian Woman Enjoys Samosas (D10)
  • Tony Ramsay, Stansted Airport (D09); Last Night Together (J10)
  • Robert Riche, To My Mother (D09); Family Portrait; Surgery (M10); Why Have I Wondered If You Love Me (J10)
  • Sharon Rickman, Traveling in a Wheelchair (J08)
  • Kim Roberts, Siamese Twins (M08)
  • Curtis Robbins*, If I Am At All; Ludwig von Beethoven (S09)
  • Gary Ronnie, Stasis; Pastoral (J08)
  • Nan Rosen, Phantom Sight; Stone Otter (D09)
  • Tanya Roycraft, hate (J08)
  • Stuart Sanderson*, A Mixed Blessing (S07); If My Hands could (D07); Wandering Thoughts (S09)
  • Nathan Say, What I'm Offered Daily (S09)
  • David Scaffidi, In Italy MS is the Name of a Cigarette; Marching Order (J07)
  • Nancy Scott*, Feather (S08);Winter Solstice (D07); Comfort's Concern; Fugue (J08) Blame "Radio Times" and Poetry Month; Skunk Clearing (S10)
  • George Shean, Twilight (S07)
  • Kaia Sherritt, The Withdrawal (S07)
  • Daniel Simpson*, School For the Blind; My Mother Cleans (S09)
  • Alma Singleton, Waiting for a Hero (J08)
  • Ellen McGrath Smith*, Theodore Enslin, Poet of Maine (M10)
  • Marilyn Brandt Smith*, Texas School For the Blind, 1955 (J08)
  • Karen Stromberg, Book, Lamp, Tree; Helping the ADHD Child at Home (S07)
  • Omosun Sylvester*, A Moment of Silence (D07)
  • Arbin L. Tabao, Witness (S08); Lola (S10)
  • Abbie Johnson Taylor*, Timber! (J08); Awaiting the Return of My Better Half; While Walking Home (D10)
  • Nicole Taylor, They Were Singing Oya; Jigsaw (M08); Women First; Steps Practice 1, 2, 3; Family Meeting in a Church Downtown (M10)
  • Elaine Terranova, Polio (J07)
  • Mark Thomas, The Importance of Being Earnest; TheDecimal Point (J07)
  • Mary Tisera, Pieces (D07); Matthew; Pacified; My Mother's Voice (D08); Stuffed (D09)
  • Onyinyechukwu Udegbe, It's a Lie (J07)
  • Megan Webster*, Full Moon; I Want to Jump (J07)
  • Patricia Wellingham-Jones*, Big Help; Good Night's Sleep (J07); Walk of the One-Breasted Women; Suspicion; The Body Knows (M08); Dialogue with My Knee; Keys; MRI Without Valium (M09)
  • Liz Whiteacre*, Main Lemonade; Pain Suitor (J10); Two Feet Shorter Than My Usual Height (S09); TENs Unit; Witnesses
  • Ellen Williams* Parkinson's Rap (S10)
  • Martin Willits, Jr. , Becoming Disabled; Siamese Twins (J08)
  • Gary Winters, Wheelchair Blues (D08)
  • Kathi Wolfe*, Happy Hour; Pulp Fiction (S10)

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Book Reviews

  • Millicent Borges Accardi Woman on a Shaky Bridge ( J10)
  • lKay Anderson and Vicki Forman (ed.) Gravity Pulls You In: Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum (J10)
  • Sheila Black How to be a Maquiladora (M07); House of Bone (S07)
  • Sheila Black and Michel Marcoux Continental Divide (J10)
  • C. E. Chaffin Unexpected Light (M09)
  • John Lee Clark, Deaf American Poetry (J09)
  • Linda Cronin Dream Bones (D07)
  • Rebecca Foust Dark Card (S08); All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song (D10)
  • Linda Fuchs More Ramblings, Less Insanity (D09)
  • Elizabeth P. Glixman White Girl Lynching (S10
  • Ona Gritz Left Standing (S07)
  • Therese Halsheid Last Movements ( D07)
  • Anne Kaier In Fire (S09)
  • Basanta Kar The Unfold Pinnacle (S08)
  • Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus Cripple Poetics: A Love Story (J08)
  • Ellen LaFleche Estella with One Lung (S08)
  • Cynthia Leweicki-Wilson* and Brenda Brueggemann Disability and the Teaching of Writing (07)
  • Laurie Clements Lambeth Veil and Burn (S08)
  • Paul Hostovsky Bending the Notes (M10)
  • Tom Lombardo (ed) Aftershocks (D08)
  • Raymond Luczak* (ed) Eyes of Desire 2: A Deaf GLBT Reader (S09); Whispers of a Savage Sort and Other Plays of the Deaf American Experience (D09); Assembly Required; Notes on a Deaf Gay LIfe (M10);Mute (J10); Men With Their Hands (S10)
  • Louise Mathewson A Life Interrupted: Living with Brain Injury (J10)
  • Kobus Moolman (ed) Tilling the Hard Soil: Poetry, Prose and Art by South African Writers with Disabilities (S10)
  • Tendai Mwanaka Mad Bob Republic - Blood, Bile and a Crying Child (D09)
  • Irie Parker* Twisted Consequences (S09)
  • Gary Presley* - Seven Wheelchairs (M09)
  • Sienna Elizabeth Raimonde A Place Called Return (D10)
  • Nan Rosen and Carolyn Mineah Voyage to Centauri (D10)
  • David and Daniel Simpson Audio Chapbook (M08)
  • Marilyn Brandt Smith (ed) - Behind Our Eyes (J08)
  • Megan Webster BiPolar Express (D07)
  • Ellen Williams Let's Go Around Again (D07)
  • Patricia Wellingham-Jones End Cycle (J07)
  • Kathi Wolfe Helen Keller Takes the Stage (J08)

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Essays

  • Jennifer Bartlett,this is not my beautiful house; this is not my beautiful wife (D10); Ethics, Poetry and the Identity of the Disabled Body (J10)
  • Sheila Black, Eliza Dolitle and Me: Voice, Tone and Power in the Poetics of Disability( J10)
  • Ann Bogle, Driving Years ( J10)
  • Jimmy Burns, Wounded Diction ( D10)
  • C. E. Chaffin, A Manic-Depressive Composes Poems for His Deaf Wife (J09)
  • Joyce Campbell, The Poetic Path (S08)
  • John Lee Clark, The Case for Disability Literature (D09)
  • John Thomas Clark, Othering (D07)
  • Barbara Crooker, Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetics of Disability ( J10)
  • Jim Ferris, Crip Poetry, or How I Learned to Love the Limp ( J07)
  • Yvette Green, Dream Alliance Film Project (S09)
  • Steff Green, Blind Characters: A Process of Awareness (M09)
  • Tara Arlene Innmon, Squashed Baby Pigs ( J08)
  • Anne Kaier, River Creature: A Poet Finds a Way to Talk About Her Disability (J09)
  • Paul Kahn, The Deepening Fog: Part 1 (S09); The Deepening Fog: Part 2 (D09); The Deepening Fog: Part 3 (M10)
  • Marie Kane, The Opportunity for Revision (D09)
  • Tracy Koretsky, Seeking Enlightened Portrayals: Judging the Dolly Gray Award, Part 1 ( D08); Part 2 (M09); Giving it Away: A Report (D10)
  • Petra Kuppers, Crip Sheet for 'Latin Does Not Have a Word for Symmetry' (S07); Kathi Wolfe: Rome Ashes 1946 (J08)
  • Ellen LaFleche, Happily Ever After (D07)
  • Laurie Clements LambethMarketing Disablity and the Integrity of the Poet (D107)
  • Jessica Lewis Luck, Disability, Poetry and Pedagogy (J10)
  • Raymond Luczak, Letter to Sean Penn (S09)
  • Ona Gritz, Frida and Me (S10)
  • Diane Kendig, Speaking of "Speaking of Maria Blanchard" (S10)
  • Sally Martin, My Life with the Wolf J08
  • Maya Northen, Who Really Offers Disability Travel (S09)
  • Michael Northen, Amaryllis and the Philly Festival (S07); A Brief History of Disability Poetry (M08); Disability Poetry in 2008, Part 1 (D08); Part 2 (M09); Paul Kahn:Something Close to Beautiful (M10)
  • Carmen Papalia, Caning in the City (J07)
  • Sienna Elizabeth Raimonde, The Bags of Life (M09)
  • Scott Rains, Solo Travel With a Disability (S09)
  • Curtis Robbins, Response to Dialogue on Disability (S09)
  • Stuart Sanderson, A Meditation on Computers (S08); Amaryllis Theater (S09)
  • Dan Simpson, Line Breaks the Way I See Them ( M07)
  • Ellen McGrath Smith, "Hearing a Pear": Poetry Reading on a New Frequency (J10)
  • Osomun Sylvester, On Poetry (D07)
  • Sharon Wachsler, Disability Culture (D08)
  • Patricia Wellingham-Jones, Poetry Fits My Body
  • Ellen Williams, Masquerade (D08); Summer Goes to Sleep (S09); When Dreams Don't Come True (S10)
  • Kathi Wolfe, Helen Keller: Obsession and Muse (J07); Finding My Muse: On Being a Crip, Queer Poet (M08); Labor Pains and the Muse: The Birth of Uppity Blind Girl (S10)

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Interviews

  • Trish Ayers, playwrite and poet (M08)
  • Jonathan Chiccio, novelist (S10)
  • John Lee Clark, poet and editor(J10)
  • Barbara Crooker, poet (J08)
  • Philip Dowd, scholar poet (D09)
  • Trace Estes, poet and editor of The Alsop Review (S09)
  • Anna Evans, poet and editor of The Barefoot Muse (J08)
  • Laura Hershey, poet (D10)
  • Barry H. J. Horton novelilst and poet (D10)
  • Noria Jablonski, short story writer (M08)
  • Paul Kahn, poet and playwrite (S07)
  • Tracy Koretsky, novelist (M07)
  • Petra Kuppers, scholar and poet (J07)
  • Leah Maines, publisher of Finishing Line Books (D10)
  • Kobus Moolman, poet and playwrite ( D07)
  • Irie Parker, novelist S09)
  • Nancy Scott, poet (S08)
  • Liz Whiteacre, poet (S10)
  • Gail Wilmott, editor of Kaleidoscope (D08)
  • Sheila Black, Lydia Fecteau, Heather Garrison, Therese Halscheid, and Cynthia Leweicki-Wilson, dialogue on teaching disability literature (M09)
  • Linda Cronin, Ona Gritz, Patricia Wellingham-Jones and Kathi Wolfel, dialogue on disability poetry (J09)

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Photography and Visual Arts

  • Nancy Creighton, Betty G. Miller: Deaf Painter (S07)
  • Yvette Green, Our Film Project (S07)
  • Dana Hirsch, Computer Art ( D07)
  • Heather Kirk, The Exposed Series: Flowers on Black (M07); Bent Palm Seeries (J08)
  • Ilene Myers, Experiences in Digital Photography (D08)
  • Elijah Northen, Exploring Body Form (J07); Exploring Body Form - Part 2 (D08)
  • Stuart Sanderson, Computer Art (M10)
  • Robert Woltanski, Painting: My Story (J09)

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Book Excerpts

  • Trish Ayers, LUMPS [play] M08
  • Jonathan Chiccino, The Penumbra Chrnoicles [novel] S10)
  • Paul Kahn, The Making of Free Verses [play] D07
  • Petra Kuppers and Neil Marcus , Cripple Poetics: A Love Story [poetics] J08
  • Tracy Koretsky, Ropeless [novel] J07
  • Noria Jablonski, Human Oddities [short stories] M08
  • Raymond Luczak, Assembly Required [memoir] M10
  • John Pixley, Jury By Trial [play] D07
  • Gary Presley, Seven Wheelchairs [autobiography] D08
  • Nan Rosen and Carolyn Mineah, Voyage to Centauri [novel] M10
  • Musa Zulu, The Language of Me [autobiography] M08

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Fiction

  • Leisl Jobson, The Gospel of Adam's Ex; Invasive Species; The Night is a Teacher (M09) Ulcer; Ecstay (J09)
  • Ed Krizek, Afterlife (D10)
  • Tendai Mwanaka, Breaking the Silence (S08)
  • Christine Stark, Day Three (M09)
  • Abbie Johnson Taylor, The Flower Boy ( S08)
  • Ellen Williams, The Hat (J08); Sally and Maggie (S08), Waiting Room Blues (D08); I Shot the Radio in the Women's Locker Room (J09)
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