{"id":7278,"date":"2019-07-31T20:43:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/?p=7278"},"modified":"2019-07-31T20:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:43:42","slug":"spymaster-2-2-3-5-3-2-6-2-2-4-4-6-4-6-2-5-2-4-4-2-2-2-10-2-4-2-2-2-2-5-2-3-3-3-2-6-3-2-2-3-4-2-2-2-4-2-2-5-3-3-3-8-4-2-2-3-2-4-7-6-5-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/?p=7278","title":{"rendered":"Chances Are&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>By Richard Russo<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7279 size-thumbnail\" style=\"margin-top: 0.857143rem; margin-right: 1.71429rem; margin-bottom: 0.857143rem;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/9781101947746-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/h3>\n<p><b>One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties.\u00a0 They couldn&#8217;t have been more different then, or even today. But, each man holds his own secrets, in addition to the monumental mystery that none of them has ever stopped puzzling over since a Memorial Day weekend right here on the Vineyard in 1971.\u00a0 Now, forty-four years later, as this new weekend unfolds, three lives and that of a significant other are displayed in their entirety while the distant past confounds the present like a relentless squall of surprise and discovery.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<strong>Share This Post With People You Know:<\/strong> <br \/><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-96 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maryslibrary.com&amp;t=Chances%20Are%E2%80%A6&amp;s=100&amp;p[url]=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maryslibrary.com&amp;p[images][0]=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maryslibrary.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F07%2F9781101947746-150x150.jpg&amp;p[title]=Chances%20Are%E2%80%A6\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:96px;height:96px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" style=\"display: inline;width:96px;height:96px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/128x128\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-96 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-linkedin nolightbox\" data-provider=\"linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Linkedin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maryslibrary.com&amp;title=Chances%20Are%E2%80%A6\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:96px;height:96px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"linkedin\" title=\"Share on Linkedin\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" style=\"display: inline;width:96px;height:96px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/128x128\/linkedin.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-96 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Chances%20Are%E2%80%A6&amp;body=Check%20out%20this%20book%20at%20the%20Mary%20S.%20Biesecker%20Public%20Library%21:%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maryslibrary.com\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:96px;height:96px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" style=\"display: inline;width:96px;height:96px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/128x128\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Russo One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties.\u00a0 They couldn&#8217;t have been more different then, or even today. 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