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Our story prompt this week is "What does a true friend mean to you, who fits that description and why?" This assignment is a lot to chew on! It isn't as easy a topic as might appear at first blush, so I decided to start by looking up the word "friend"...
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I had no idea what I was letting myself in for.
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Over the years I had lots of boyfriends, but somehow for me marriage wasn't in the stars. I was very career focused and really hadn't found The One. I dated but just hadn't had that spark. And as fiercely independent as I am, well, marriage wasn't really high on my list...
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My parents owned a small business and worked incredibly long hours. This was in the 50s when working women were still something of an oddity and most of the women on our block were stay-at-home moms. In our unconventional household, my older sister, Jackie, and I were expected to assume the...
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You know how some people just love reminiscing about high school and never miss a reunion? I'm not one of them. In fact, I probably wouldn't attend a high school reunion if they held it in my living room. It was three years of pure torture for me--an endurance event. It...
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A mile or so north of town Cheyenne Creek ran under a bridge on US Highway 75. It was an old bridge with ornamental concrete balustrades fencing in the sides of the highway to keep cars from plunging into the water below. On each end of the bridge there was a...
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No date for me tonight. A busy Friday night at the fraternities and here I sit. In Smedes Parlor. As the fellows arrive to fetch their dates, I get their names and page the girls that their date has arrived. Each of us has this duty twice...
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This months' question pertaining to our first serious relationship is a little tricky and bittersweet. Looking back, most of my early relationships were filled with plenty of girl-drama, and were not very long and not what I'd call "serious" by my standards today, but at the time I certainly I thought they were! ...
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Although I wasn’t in the thick of the battle zone in Viet Nam I still served my country and I went when my country said “GO”. Several years after I was back home my wife had a job for a large national retailer in their home office in downtown St Louis...
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I went to church one Sunday morning and our pastor told everyone that we were going to have guest coming . We go to a small congregation at a Non-Denominational Family Oriented Church so everyone is tight nit . When our guest arrived our pastor introduced them to everyone . There...
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