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My boyfriend met Frank McCourt's wife


So my boyfriend was at work last night (he's a courtesy clerk at a local grocery store), and he's helping out this women. She begins talking about how she just got back from Ireland. He says he doesn't know much about Ireland, and that the only glimpse of it he's had is from the book Angela's Ashes. She asks him what he thought about it, and he replies that he loved it, though Frank McCourt's second book, T'is, wasn't as good. She then began talking about how her husband felt while writing the books, how she felt about them, and everything like that.

Hello, Mrs. Frank McCourt.

OH MY GOD I WOULD HAVE KILLED TO HAVE BEEN THERE.


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OMG that's awesome, I just finished reading 'tis and I loved it.
Your boyfriend is very lucky.

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Well I met Frank McCourt himself! For all of 30 seconds! he came to New Zealand to promote his new book Teacher Man (the only one of his I have read yet) and talked about it for an hour or so then signed people's copys of his books. So i have all three books signed and I told him how Teacher Man was a real inspiration for me (I am a qualified teacher myself, not yet teaching though). He is a real gem to listen too :)

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malachy (frank's brother) always seems to be acting in plays around my town (scranton, pa)... i shook his hand once after seeing him in one... that was neat.

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he was here in australia a little while ago, and yes he still has a brogue, but not too strong.

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