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Parting Thoughts
Parting Thoughts: Rick Vernaci
July 30, 2008 11:35 AMI left journalism a dozen years ago, well before The Plague struck. It had been twenty mostly happy years since the first day I walked into a newspaper office in Texas and was surprised to find that it smelled... Continue reading
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Bio
Rick Vernaci
Rick Vernaci had a business consulting practice in Virginia for ten years, and is now writing novels -- one in search of a publisher and the other still being written. Both are set in the St. Louis area, and both are supposed to be funny. We'll see if any publishers laugh.
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