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    Brian Crimmins

    Brian Crimmins recently earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Florida. He is working on his first full-length memoir, Stories I Told Myself, and is also the author of SeekingSouthern.com, a blog celebrating Southern cooking and eating.

    Brian Crimmins

    Nonfiction

    Layers

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    My parents began snapping pictures, and then a few neighbors joined in with their own cameras. I stood by the car, smiling, posing, “Look this way!” one would say. “Now over here, Brian!” Cement and suburbia were my red carpet.