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My Colleague, My Friend

Golden V. Adams Jr.

I have lots a acquaintances, but a true friend is a treasue! Laurel is one of the few acquaintances I have that I would consider a true friend. In the 1980s, I was teaching at Farrer Jr. High School in Provo, Utah. Bruce Evans and I had been the mainstays in...

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The Day My Oldest Son Showed He Was A Man

Charles William Spratt

It was a cool day in October 2009 in illinois. We were having a funeral today . It was for my son that was that had turned 35 years old in August . I was their bouncingoff the walls . That’s just the way I was handling it . My...

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It Would've Made a Great Trick

Millard Don Carriker

Had “Darwin Awards” existed in 1946, Gene Covell and I would have made the list. It could easily have been awarded posthumously were it not for the fact that guardian angels look over little kids. The stunt Gene and I dreamed-up seemed do-able at the time. Sure, in the bright light...

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His Words Were Few, But "Pithy"

Millard Don Carriker

The only grandparents I knew were my Grandma Beavers, who was to me a consummate witch, and my Grandpa Carriker, who was her polar opposite. Grandpa Carriker came to visit us in the summer of 1942. Compared to him, Calvin Coolidge was a blabber-mouth but Grandpa was a pleasant old man...

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Meaning of true friendship

Suzanna Rawlins

True friends are ones who are your friends no matter what. They will be with you in the jail cell as the addage goes, saying "Damn we had a good time!!" They are the ones there with you through thick and thin. Those are the most precious of friendships because they...

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If I could visit any relative of my past who would it be?

Suzanna Rawlins

One - only one? You would try to impose limits on me? I have many I want to visit. FIRST and foremost is my great great grandfather John Wesley Martin. Right now he is my genealogy brick wall. I have visited his grave in Lincolnton, Georgia and asked him to manifest...

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My Mother, the "Mouse"

Janet Holt

The question posed was, "If you could visit with a deceased friend or family member, who would it be? What would you do?" This was an easy one--it would be my mother. Mother was extremely reserved and very proper. Although she was competent and capable she avoided leadership positions. She was...

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Precious Time Lost

Lillian Cormier

I had the most wonderful mother who always had a smile on her face even though she had a tough life. I wish we could have been friends and she would have shared her unhappy times with me, but that was during the 1940's and parents were so different. I'm sure she didn't...

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My Brother - My Friend

Millard Don Carriker

I seem to have always had a more stringent definition of what a "friend" is than most people. I have had many great "acquaintances" in my life, some fairly meaningful, but I have truly had only two or three friends in my 78 years of living. One of those - the...

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She'll Meet Me At The Gates

Karen Jenkins

Who would I most like to talk to? She and I have made plans for her to meet me when I cross over.

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Falling in Love - '60's style

Annie Payne

Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE I fell in love not long after I’d commenced my nursing training and perhaps the two were somehow connected? In the 1960’s Australian student nurses were required to ‘live in’ in the Nurse’s Home, on the hospital premises, where we were subjected to...

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A Tribute To My Adopted Cajun Brother In Law

Charles William Spratt

This is a tribute to my adopted brother in law that passed away this last year . He lived in East Texas 20 miles from Louisiana and was half Cajun and proud of it . Paul Burch Jr 1958-2011 What is a Coonass? There are a few different...

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If He Was Here Again...

Tom Cormier

I had the good fortune of becoming very close with a hillbilly family in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. I know I can use the word, "hillbilly" because it's just who they are and they are proud of it. Rather than tell that entire story here I wanted to...

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Second to None

Millard Don Carriker

My parents both enjoyed music. Dad was a self-taught, hillbilly, fiddler/singer who, as a teenager had played for many a square dance in Arkansas, took great joy in musically recreating the woes of the Indian girl “Red Wing,” the humorous ballad “Rye Whiskey,” and other old songs. Mother had been raised...

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I hope My Wife Approves

Charles William Spratt

When I was young and DUMB and before my wife died in childbirth in 1979 at the age of 28 . I was 32 years old and she was a stay at home Mom taking care of our two sons . I would go to work and people would ask me...

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Clemmie - Doris - Clemmie

Doris Ross Reddick

As a child,Clemmie Ross predicted she would have a daughter, her name would be "Doris and she will be a teacher". Her only child's name is Doris and she became a teacher. What Mother Clemmie could not have imagined is how significant to so many other lives this love of her...

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Cutting Firewood

Millard Don Carriker

I attended a Memorial Service for my last remaining brother last Saturday. He was 84 years old, six years older than I. Although we were brothers, we grew up in a vastly different world and had strikingly different memories of our childhood and adolescence. We in the family called him “Gene.” ...

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My Jewel Tea Truck

Charles William Spratt

It always seems to me that 1956 is the year to remember. I know my Dad had a big piece of pipe fall on his leg and crush the bone in his lower leg. He was off of work for a long time. They had to put a silver plate in...

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My Best Friend

Charles William Spratt

I’ve had a lot of very good friends in my life . Some have been what you would say best friends . When my first wife died I had a fried that I worked with that I had went to Tech School with . He stuck with me like glue ....

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Christine & Tom courtship...

Christine Cormier

One late summer evening August 25, 1968 I met a boy named Tommy Cormier. He was wearing Striped bell bottoms and a cotton shirt. I had a summer dress on as it was hot that evening. My sister said there was someone waiting at the door to see me. When I...

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My Colleague, My Friend

The Day My Oldest Son Showed He Was A Man

It Would've Made a Great Trick

His Words Were Few, But "Pithy"

Meaning of true friendship

If I could visit any relative of my past who would it be?

My Mother, the "Mouse"

Precious Time Lost

My Brother - My Friend

She'll Meet Me At The Gates

Falling in Love - '60's style

A Tribute To My Adopted Cajun Brother In Law

If He Was Here Again...

Second to None

I hope My Wife Approves

Clemmie - Doris - Clemmie

Cutting Firewood

My Jewel Tea Truck

My Best Friend

Christine & Tom courtship...

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