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EndNotes archive for Oct. 20, 2013

SUNDAY, OCT. 20, 2013

After a week�s worth of rain, the sun peeked through the clouds for a few minutes late Friday, Sept. 13, 2013 ... just long enough to give Alamogordo, N.M., residents a stunning view of low-hanging clouds drapping the Sacramento Mountains and topped with a rainbow. Meteorologists with the National Weather Service in Santa Teresa, N.M.,said Friday that Alamogordo received between 2.5 to 3 inches of rain since Monday -- an unusually high rainfall total given the desert climate of the area. (Michael Johnson / Alamogordo Daily News)

Not cool

“It’s not really cool to not have anybody,” said 15-year-old Davion Only, the teen who went before a Florida church congregation asking for a family. No child – anywhere, at any time, for any reason - should have to ask for a family, to ask…

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Spokesman-Review features writer Rebecca Nappi, along with writer Catherine Johnston of Olympia, Wash., discuss here issues facing aging boomers, seniors and those experiencing serious illness, dying, death and other forms of loss.