Tag: stories
group name: gatherourstories
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September 07, 2006 07:50 PM EDT --
NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
Growing up as a person who was adopted, I always had the normal adoptee questions running through my head. Why was I put up for adoption, who was my birth-mother, . . .
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September 15, 2006 09:25 AM EDT --
My dad was one of nine children in a low income family. His childhood experiences are the subject of many family stories and he often described his memories in poetry. A Penny Candy is one . . .
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September 14, 2006 10:52 AM EDT --
When my kids were growing up, my husband always "led" the dinner conversation and did most of the talking. He frequently told stories about people in his office and often complained about . . .
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August 24, 2006 06:51 PM EDT --
Here's something I published the other night that is appropriate for this group. It's about my father.
With all the hate speech and anger aimed at Muslims regardless of their nationality, . . .
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August 25, 2006 11:35 AM EDT --
My father was one of nine children. His parents came from Russia and settled in New York . Although they died before I was born, I feel a strong connection because I was named in their honor. . . .
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September 03, 2006 10:17 PM EDT --
Age has a way of sneaking up on you. One day you're 21 getting ready to graduate from college and the next you're 47 and playing with Barbie dolls with your six year old granddaughter. . . .
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November 16, 2006 04:27 AM EST --
When I first moved back to Kansas it was a big change from the big city. Many years ago I had bought my Grandma and Grandpa Aguinaga's house. I mainly used it as a vacation home when I came to visit . . .
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October 11, 2006 12:14 AM EDT --
Of course it wasn't done intentionally so to speak, he was trying to avoid his family from being shunned upon in society.
See Paw-paw was a red-skinned white man (if that's possible), as was my . . .
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October 10, 2006 10:47 AM EDT --
After I graduated from high school, my father decided it was time for me to do something productive instead of hang around the house until I left for college in the fall. I was told I needed to get . . .
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September 28, 2006 09:17 AM EDT --
My youngest son was an outgoing child with a natural gift for conversation. He has always been a "super salesman".
On one occasion, when he was about 6, he gathered an assortment . . .
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November 22, 2006 09:10 PM EST --
Remember as you head off for the Thanksgiving Day holiday, it is more than a time of gathering with family and dinner with all the fixings. If you write, it is also a time to gather up those stories . . .
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December 07, 2006 10:28 AM EST --
On December 7, 1941 life changed for the citizens of the United States. It was an attack against America in a shockingly violent way. That day began one of the dark periods of America's . . .
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September 08, 2006 11:31 AM EDT --
My eldest granddaughter started kindergarten this week. She is six years old and has already been in pre-school and something called "Young Fives." She will walk into a classroom . . .
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May 15, 2007 04:53 PM EDT --
I have had some small success in getting a few of my stories republished. Most recently, "The Very Cool Mister Rath" was republished under my original title "Mentor" in the . . .
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February 01, 2007 02:20 PM EST --
One of the hardest things is realizing that your child has grown up. But I think it's even harder to let them go. Since my son has grown up, I've experienced many such moments along the way. Even . . .
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August 11, 2008 10:45 PM EDT --
I was raised by two traditional people to be a very non-traditional individual. I don't think they realized what they were doing when they were raising me but I'm grateful for it anyway.
Even . . .
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September 12, 2006 10:59 AM EDT --
This first part is a repost of what my husband already posted, for those of you who are on both of our lists I aplogize. At the end you will read my comments about what happened today!
"I find myself . . .
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August 27, 2006 07:41 PM EDT --
My mother was a mild-mannered English-Canadian who married a south Georgia redneck. He adored her til the day he died.
I've been researching my family for many years - my dad got me interested in . . .
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April 13, 2007 10:45 AM EDT --
It was the early 1950's and my mother was not yet 10 years old. My grandfather was a mechanic and like all mechanics he always owned the most...unusual cars. At the time he owned . . .
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August 26, 2006 02:21 AM EDT --
My mother had Sixteen children in her family, mind boggling in the age of one and 2 child families, but it was also quite miraculous. You see my Nana (Mabel) Ricker had an incomplete heart. She was . . .
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