Breaking news!  I’ve retired from being “Miss Exclusive.”  It wasn’t an easy decision, but when my adoption placement came in a few months ago, I decided it was time.  I didn’t want to travel with a newborn baby, and I didn’t want to be away from my baby and have someone else see all the “firsts.”  No regrets.

     I did get to finish my “exclusive” career with some big stories, like the man I met at the Smithsonian Institution, who told me he crash landed and got marooned for several days on an island believed Amelia Earhart crash landed, had a daughter who lived to be about four to five years old, and they both died of illness on the island.  And the miraculous thing was he seemed to have all th...

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