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THE CONCLUSION CHAPTER OF 2022 MARKS THE PROLOGUE OF 2023

Ann Marie Ruby in San Francisco

The winter breeze blew the open pages of my almost completed diary of 2022 as I watched my new diary sitting on my desk, waiting for me to open it. December in downtown San Francisco, where the street lights and the magical cable cars tell a tale about a miraculous Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and a

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CALIFORNIA: WHERE MY DREAMS TOO BECAME A REALITY

Ann Marie Ruby California

California, where my dreams too became a reality. Calafia, or maybe Califia was the imaginary queen of an imaginary island called California. Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo’s early sixteenth-century novel “Las Sergas de Esplandián” was a sequel to fifteenth-century romance novels known as Amadís de Gaula written by an unknown author. The novel had a beautiful

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