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Reader recommendation: All There Is

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By Marilyn Crowley, Harrison, Me. / May 18, 2012

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Thanks to a recent Monitor review, I read and enjoyed All There Is, interviews collected by the StoryCorps oral history project, edited by Dave Isay. It is a sweet and bittersweet look at marriage as a wonderful but serious commitment. It reads very quickly because each interview is a very short chapter. I enjoyed it, laughing out loud at some points and having tears in my eyes at others.

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