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I admire and respect your digital ambition and happily signed up. But to me, the highlight of the day is curling up under the covers for an hour of pre-sleep reading, not on a device but a hard-cover volume such as your memoir, that kept me enthralled for many nights. Call me an antiquarian, but not a Luddite!

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I’m thrilled to be tagging along on your new adventure, GK. As a recently retired member of POEM myself (Professional Organization of Engineering Majors), I’m also enjoying new opportunities, and what you’ve begun here is inspiring. I’m so glad you’re continuing to do what you do better than anyone else ... make us laugh (and a whole lot more). Had the pleasure of meeting you (and Heather) at Birdland Jazz Club in late 2019, and looking forward to seeing you again when it’s time to get back on the road. Best wishes on your new adventure.

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I was an avid (avid!) PHC fan for many years, I must admit there was a brief lull in enthusiasm a few years ago. But I'm back with you Garrison. Congratulations!

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You're the top! Your wit has helped keep me sane throughout a big part of my life!

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I am almost finished with your new virus book. Hilarious! And yet touching at the same time. Just clicked on Garrison K.com and saw you had a new site and I almost broke my arm ripping my credit card out of my wallet. I signed up for a year. This is going to be a big adventure I know it. PS. 15 years ago your Minnesota Buddy Prince did something like this. I joined a club and he sent us new songs and a podcast each month. It was a great year.

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You and Jean Shepherd, my two favorite radio raconteurs. Your tales of the good looking women, strong men, and bright kids of central Minnesota, near Stearns County, up around Holdingford, not far from St. Rosa and Albany and Freeport, northwest of St. Cloud helped me better understand that we are more alike than we are different. Thank you for yhour counter programing to the divisiveness telegraphed by certain quarters! Looking forward to more!

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Will I be able to down your books to my Kindle?

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been a fan even before you were on TV; am delighted to see more of your wonderful work

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Please accept the John Amaral American Poet Laureate award from a Chet lover who wishes you were still in the saddle on what was our very own Grand Ole Opry. America is not better for its absence; a symptom of where we are and un-patented medicine for what ails it now. When you bailed, I thought maybe you had found a perfect solution that could be orchestrated from the 'back room'. Hope springs, though. America needs a renewed musical conscience like those it once had.

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I just subscribed and look forward to reading your novels and of course your weekly columns. Greetings from the City of St. Francis.

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I grew up in Minnesota, went to college there (across the street from the Prairie Home Cemetery in Moorhead, and was drafted into the cannon-fodder pipeline in 1970. Thankfully, I was stationed at an Army research laboratory near Boston and fell in love with both New England and my wife. We have lived on the coast, as well as now in the mountains of Maine most of the years since then. Your PHC kept me connected with Minnesota over the years, your books (paper versions) have been read and are in a special place on the bookshelves next to my "reading chair" that I am sitting in right now. Since covid got up to speed, we have listened to The Writer's Almanac daily, right after breakfast as we look out at the lake here in the western mountains of Maine. And on Tuesdays, I read your weekly column out loud...interrupted by mutual chuckles if not outright belly laughs. We are sticking with you, whatever format you choose. It has been a wonderful tag-along so far, and we look forward to many more years of spot-on Minnesotan perspectives and humor. Thanks for everything from an almost-75-year-old central Minnesota ex-pat.

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