Margaret Pennington

Margaret Pennington

Author, Illustrator, Reader

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 This is an absolutely true, swear-to-God story about my brother and his obssessive relationship with dogs. It was simply a gift from heaven to me, a humor writer, when Franklin, a Methodist minister, named his most recent dog Jesus.
 Okay, all seriousness aside, this is the story of David from the planet Thunderbird, whose terrible brain injury made him a heretic. It's frustrating telling a story to someone who doesn't understand that you mean exactly what you say, and equally frustrating to be told a story by an idiot.&nb...

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