Tag: random
group name: famiilyhistory
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April 07, 2006 05:44 AM EDT --
Lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworths
JFK elected President
Peace Corp program announced
Yuri Gargarin, first man in space
Bay of Pigs
Alan Shepard, first American in space
16,000 U.S. advisors sent to Vietnam . . . more
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June 11, 2006 12:16 AM EDT --
My granddaughters, ages three and four, spot and pluck insects and worms from the grass with the precision of a starving-bird. . . . more
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March 15, 2006 07:56 PM EST --
This article was written in response to the Two Words Group Weekly Challenge "Night's Revenge."
I am by nature, a caretaker of books. They line our shelves, stand in what I can only hope . . . more
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April 20, 2006 08:21 PM EDT --
(edited version after receiving permission to use her real name)
Dazed preoccupation, glowing skin, picture in hand to remind her he wasn't a dream, giggles and visible jitters. She showed all . . . more
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April 22, 2006 08:18 PM EDT --
For those of us sentenced to Catholic school, back-to-school shopping promised few thrills beyond walking to Kresges with all the neighborhood . . . more
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February 06, 2006 04:58 PM EST --
Ben the Wonder Dog
We got him the year the twins turned three. Lively two were wearing us thin and they needed a wrestlin' dawg. This one was . . . more
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April 16, 2006 02:47 AM EDT --
Hah! Got you with that title, didn't I? It's true too but probably not in the way you expect. Let me tell you about Barry, okay?
I was 14 and my girlfriend Linda had two stepbrothers, . . . more
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April 14, 2006 02:27 AM EDT --
Dancing served many purposes in my life. There. I said it in past tense and I'm still breathing. It was great exercise, a stress reliever, an expression of emotions and music, always fun, and sensual . . . more
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March 17, 2006 03:13 PM EST --
The arrival of the Sisters every June was better than a circus coming to town. Maybe even it was better than riding the blue and . . . more
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March 14, 2006 05:51 PM EST --
I have almost no family. I was an only, no sisters or brothers, of unusual birth circumstances.
Three years ago I moved my then 81 year old mother from the family homestead 450 miles . . . more
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April 18, 2006 07:31 PM EDT --
In addition to the traditional offerings most generous, doting parents lavish on a child, mine infused a lifeline to their unrestricted generosity. They gave me the world, by allowing me to see . . . more
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September 13, 2006 12:49 AM EDT --
Tonight during my teevee hour with the dawg I watched a "LEGENDS:" show on the comedy Channel.
"RODNEY DANGERFIELD" was the subject.
My poor skills do not do justice to begin to . . . more
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April 13, 2006 06:40 AM EDT --
Anna Mae Langford Leigh was my maternal grandmother. She was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, on February 15, 1903, in a polygamous Mormon colony. Her father had two wives.
Not such a big deal, considering some . . . more
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August 27, 2006 03:50 AM EDT --
As a child, life was so much simplier. It was at least a mile to the nearest neighbor. Most roads were dirt roads and few people traveled on them. Eveyone knew everyone in the community by first name. . . . more
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April 30, 2006 09:10 PM EDT --
I feel like my life has been lived in cycles of binging and purging. Right now, I am purging. Old family photos, to be exact. I am the repository of photos once in the possession of both of my grandmothers, . . . more
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April 28, 2006 12:08 AM EDT --
I slowly creep from between warm sheets
And pull my boots upon small feet,
I think again of my warm bed,
Put on my coat, place hat on head.
I step into the frosty night,
My heart is thumping . . . more
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July 30, 2007 11:20 PM EDT --
Yesterday was a bit of an anomaly for me. You see, I had it all to myself....
Fred, Dani and Alex left at 6 am for a Phoenix - San Bernardino - Phoenix turn around trip in order to get my . . . more
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May 07, 2006 11:20 PM EDT --
Silence for those who gave their lives
At sea, during the Battle of the Atlantic.
As we gave honor to those seamen,
The call of seagulls filled the air -
No, we weren't near the ocean,
These . . . more
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June 26, 2006 10:32 AM EDT --
(more or less...),
During World War II always referred to as "THE WAR" no matter how many had come and gone or were going on.
He set type at a Linotype machine for newspapers, made . . . more
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April 28, 2006 02:37 AM EDT --
My big mistake was in expecting a twenty-mile drive to erase the thirty years I had been away. I set myself up for the unwarranted sense of betrayal that came when . . . more
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