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Month: June 2013

My wedding

Posted on June 28, 2013March 18, 2017 by Clay

On October 10, 2008, the Governor of California married Calvin Phelps and me. That transaction was legal back then, though within several weeks…

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When I told Leo Buscaglia I loved him

Posted on June 5, 2013March 18, 2017 by Clay

Chicago, February 1986. I was selling men’s shoes at Marshall Field’s Water Tower Place store on Michigan Avenue. Back then the Trib included…

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