You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarks World Citizens.

I hope this podcast finds you very well on this 1st of March, 2017.

Before we begin today's very short story by Robert Reed,

I want to give a thank you to all of you.

I have gotten some pretty amazing emails over the past couple of months and I'm so

honored that you guys take the time out of your busy schedules to tell me a story

and some of these are intensely personal and I am so

glad that you have built this relationship with this podcast so thank thank you. Every single email, every single Twitter, every time

you reach out, it makes a difference. And I'm going to challenge each and every

one of you to do that for someone else.

We need some love right now in this world.

So if you read a book, if you watch a movie, if you buy a cup of coffee for a total stranger, if you listen to another podcast, go tell them how much you love them.

Because I think everybody needs to hear it, and I have a feeling it's going to come back to you.

When you put positive things out, the positive things do come back.

Sometimes they take a while but they do. They come back.

So our first short story for the month of March 2017, issue 126 is two ways of living and it's by Robert Reed. Now Robert Reed is one of the coolest guys out there. He's also a

Clark's for old favorite. He's got quite a few stories in our magazine and we're

very happy to have him every time he pens another piece.

Robert Reed was born in Omaha, Nebraska.

He has had 11 novels published,

starting with the Lee Shore in 1987,

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