Love Is In The Air At Long Beach Airport Eith Customized Poems For Travelers
by Asia Morris
FROM: Long Beach Post
Don’t be surprised if love is in the air when you’re traveling via Long Beach Airport on Valentine’s Day. Poet Brian Sonia-Wallace will be writing love poems—with the satisfying clack-clack-clack of an antique Remington typewriter—for Friday jet setters willing to share their love stories.
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