First page and inset of Ernest Hemingway’s War Department-issued overseas visa
First page and inset of Ernest Hemingway’s War Department-issued overseas visa
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As I stroll lackadaisically through life’s pollen-belching daffodil fields, it occurs to me that I’ve never seen a depressed person with Down syndrome. No matter how sad their lives may look to outsiders, down to the last pumpkin-headed man and woman they seem blissfully ignorant of how they may appear to others. They happily embrace life as if they are clutching a fistful of multicolored balloons. (more…)