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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Annie Shares News Issue 2.3 March 2022<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:anniesharesnews@groups.io">anniesharesnews@groups.io</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Subscribe: <a href="mailto:anniesharesnews+subscribe@groups.io">anniesharesnews+subscribe@groups.io</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.annchiappetta.com">www.annchiappetta.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello readers, I hope you are well and thriving and your loved ones are safe and looking forward to springing into warmer weather. After a few slow months it’s party time -- <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>🎈</span> <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>🎉</span> -- beginning with a book launch and a new podcast. <i> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hope-Tarnished-Ann-Chiappetta-ebook/dp/B09T6262RD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ZLAIB4FB4URM&keywords=hope+for+the+tarnished+ann+chiappetta&qid=1646340999&sprefix=hope+for+the+tarnished+ann+chiappetta%2Caps%2C57&sr=8-1">Hope for the Tarnished</a></i> © 2022 is the debut YA novel and it’s available on Amazon in print, eBook and kindle. It’s also my first independently published book to be issues a catalog number so libraries Nationwide could order it in print and add it to the digital book collection. If you want to help me out, and are a library patron, <a href="mailto:anniecms64@gmail.com">contact</a> me to receive the information to request it. If you would like a review copy with the intention of reviewing the book as an eBook, just reply to this email.<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black'>🎙</span><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black'> I’ve been offered the opportunity to host a new podcast. Tune into your podcast player of choice and listen to episode one of Chat and Connect, a podcast for conversations about people with disabilities, society and culture produced by Westchester Disabled on the Move, Inc.. <a href="https://wdom.org/">Go Here</a> to visit their website and find out more about this premiere organization assisting people with disabilities. </span><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black'>📜</span><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:black'> Poetry and Tea 🍵</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;line-height:15.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'>My poem, <i>The Comfort of Chinese Food</i> was chosen by Off-Topic Publishing to be distributed in a specialty print gift called the Poetry Box ™. I received my complimentary 5 x 8-inch postcard depicting a cup of tea with my poem printed beside it. It was nestled in a beautiful, wrapped package nestled alongside some delicious chocolate and tea samples -- and I could tell it was done with caring hands and perfect for framing. The best part is each subscription receives a monthly poem and goodies. If you don’t know what to get that poet or literature professor in your life why not delight them with the gift of poetry? Go to: </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.offtopicpublishing.com/poetrybox">www.offtopicpublishing.com/poetrybox</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Comfort of Chinese Food <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>By Ann Chiappetta<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It was Lum Yen or Tung Hoy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dad poured tea -- too hot to hold <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>too hot for lips. The dare of dipping a fried noodle into hot mustard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>the eye-watering bite of horseradish priceless<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>when he grinned<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now in the seat beside the window<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>my reflection is the partner<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I order and stir a drink with the red <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Umbrella. Tommy, the owner serves me. He is <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>a silver-temple surrogate.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I slide over the bowl of fried rice<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>reaching for the fork. He stops it<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And offers the spoon instead.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=456 height=648 style='width:4.75in;height:6.75in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01D82F22.1DC0AE70" alt="Poetry Box postcard tea cup with poem printed bside it
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