Mothership. I was in Portland, Oregon, for a wedding. But my hotel stood just a couple blocks away from the mothership. Could I resist? Why would I try? Just hours before the ceremony, my eldest boy and I, along with the groom, tramped off to Powell’s to see what magic might be conjured in ninety minutes of browsing. It turns out, quite a lot.
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