Hunting Sweetie Rose

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Patrick Riley, Mary Anne Bigane, Joe Bigane, Eric Frisch, Missy Lyda, India Cooper, and Marcia Markland tried their best to remove the muck from the manuscript.

Susan did too, as she does with everything that matters in my life.

What remains is solely my fault.

The Argus-Observer was the only Chicago newspaper that dared run the pictures of the clown going off the roof, screaming.

It happened at the start of the evening scramble, that time when floors and floors of appropriate business attires are let out to charge Union Station for trains southwest to Willow Springs, west to Brookfield, or north to Glenview, Deerfield, and points richer beyond.

Waves of hurrying heads turned up to laugh at the daredevil clown-red-nosed, orange-haired, dressed in huge green dots-prancing antic atop the old Rettinger Hardware Supply building. Dozens paused longer, to snap a cell phone picture, new proof of their wacky, rush hour lives.

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