What to win a free copy of Doll God? It’s my first poetry collection, published by Aldrich Press:
Winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, Doll God, studies traces of the spirit world in human-made and natural objects–a Japanese doll, a Palo Verde tree, a hummingbird. Her exploration leads the reader between the twin poles of nature and creations of the imagination in dolls, myth, and art.
“Every day the world subtracts from itself,” Luanne Castle observes. Her wonderfully titled collection, Doll God, with its rich and varied mix of poems part memoir, part myth and tale, shimmers as it swims as poetry is meant to, upstream against the loss.
–Stuart Dybek, MacArthur Fellow and author of Streets in Their Own Ink
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General store of Lambertus Leeuwenhoek, Kalamazoo, Michigan
Standing in center of photo: Adrian Zuidweg
The Family Kalamazoo 
The picture in your email was one of several stores where Dad later built the gas station. Dad and Grandpa Z had an ice store right next door. The shopping center was torn down during the depression as taxes were then more than rentals. Your mother lived in the back of the first station(Sinclair) on this site. I was born in the house on Burdick and Emerson. This solves your question on the store on Balch– it was not on Balch but rather the corner of Balch and Burdick facing Burdick. Uncle Lou and aunt Jen lived in the house on Balch right in back of the DeKorn brick house on Burdick.
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Oh, how interesting that it was a shopping center on the corner! Grandpa had Sinclair before Sunoco?! Wow, what a neat little community it was!