"You are my rock there in Texas," my dad says at the end of our phone call. "I am in Minnesota with a lump."
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AnchorWoman is the daughter who anchors, securing her dad, providing a rock. Sometimes together they haul up a slimy, salty chain of memories. AnchorWoman is not the good hair tv news personality smiling until the commercial break.
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Fritzi Mastalir
8/7/1928 - 1/14/2005
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