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I recently faced my deep fear of needles and became a heroin addict gave blood. I decided to go for it for the same reason everyone else does: the free cookies and juice afterwards. On the drive there, I hit two squirrels and a porcupine tried to block out the image of childbirth and the nurse trying for 45 minutes to ram the IV into my arm saying, "These aren't veins. They're pencil marks. Let her die." When I arrived at the donor clinic, I couldn't help b ...

Sharon Love Cook has published her latest mystery, A Deadly Christmas Carol. She's also the author of A Nose for Hanky Panky. The books feature amateur sleuth and reporter, Rose McNichols, and assorted characters from the "sleepy fishing village" of Granite Cove where at midnight "the only things open are the sea clams." The setting is inspired by Gloucester, Mass., where she grew up. ...