It was about three years ago when Ray Hinst, owner of Haslam’s Books, told Maureen McDole upfront he wasn’t a fan of poetry, but because she was local agreed to stock her two books anyway. Weeks later, Hinst confessed to her that he’d picked them up and read them, and she’d made a convert out of him. He liked her poetry.
“That’s probably the greatest compliment I ever got,” McDole says.
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