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Month: April 2025

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Is that all there is? Yes, and no. Here’s one of countless unexplainable moments in my life

Jon Hamm as Don Draper sits at the counter in a diner in 1970 in a 2015 episode titled "Severance." Photo courtesy of AMC

Don Draper, Peggy Lee, Dad and me and how a song reappeared in my life 10 years ago. And reappeared again.

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