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Joseph O'Brien
Joseph O’Brien was born in Freehold, NJ, and lives on a homestead with his wife and nine children in rural Soldiers Grove, WI. He is managing editor of Adoremus Bulletin, a short-story editor for Tuscany Press, Wellesley, Mass., and poetry editor and staff writer (Set 'Em Up Joe and Sheep and Goats) for the San Diego Reader, where his poetry has been published in the past. His poems also have appeared in the Kickapoo Free Press, Dappled Things, America, and Chronicles.
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"Once we realize the love that God gives each one of us, we see our neighbors a little differently."
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Giuseppe Garibaldi speaks against the Pope
I am a good Christian and speak to good Christians
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Driftwood's Vanilla Old Fashioned
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The country could be called "The Isle of Poets"
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A Yogacara Buddhist
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