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Cary Lindsay

Cary Lindsay is a native of Abbeville, Alabama and a former executive for a major textbook publisher. He serves as a reader for the Chautauqua Literary Prize for the Chautauqua Institution in New York.

First Kiss Blog

First Kiss

Back in 1958, when I was fifteen years old, I made the most critical and important decision in my youthful life. I made the choice any all-American fifteen-year-old farm boy would have made. It was time for me to get my first kiss from a girl. You see, I had a crush on Mary Sue! Mary Sue and her brother…
Cary Lindsay
September 21, 2018