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Retired seventy-six-year-old curmudgeon fed up with current political climate and Republican obstructionism; BA and three MA's; writer, painter, English teacher (high-school and university levels), copy-editor in past; passionate grammarian and poetess; grandmother, great-grandmother; "spiritual" but not religious; native of Missouri but resident of six states over the years; Liberal but not libertine