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As I look back on the year 1947, I now realize it was one of those important years. The main event took place January 11th when I became a big sister to my brother Jim. Yesterday happens to have been my brother's 67th birthday! On that Saturday morning 67...
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Toys I don’t remember any toys I had when I was very small. There are pictures of me holding a poor stuffed giraffe by the neck. Karen and I usually got our toys at Christmas. I don’t remember either of us getting a toy as a birthday present or at...
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Birth I was born October 29, 1941 to Ted Lane Satterfield and Alma Lou Strickland Satterfield. My older sisters were Alma Elaine Satterfield and Joyce Angeline Satterfield. My younger sister, born in 1944, was Karen Elizabeth Satterfield. (More about them later). The hospital where I was born, St. Luke's on the...
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It was April 2, 1961 -- Easter Sunday. The tradition was to go to my father's parents for Easter supper, about 30 miles to the north in Grafton, North Dakota. However, my mother was nine months pregnant with child number 6, and the hospital where she was scheduled to deliver was...
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Grocery shopping with Mother and Daddy was pretty interesting. We shopped on Friday evening because Friday was pay day. I guess it began on Thursday night when we had leftovers for supper, both to pare down the contents of the refrigerator and to avoid waste. Then on Friday morning Mother defrosted and cleaned...
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We were still living in Florida when Dennis and I went down to the Ditch to go fishing. Dennis was in Kindergarten and we would go after he got home from school. He only went to school for half a day so it must have been Kindergarten. We were not supposed...
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I didn't think so at the time but my life was truly blessed as a child. My brother and I ran away, I was 12 and he was 14. We lived in Port Jefferson, NY above a little grocery store. On my way to school each morning I would tear a...
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We lived in Florida in another trailer park when I was about 7 or 8 years old. After school we played King of the Mountain, Cops and Robbers, Hide and Seek. We stayed out until it started to get dark. One of the teenage girls in the park referred to her parents as Sir...
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When Dennis was in Kindergarten we lived in a trailer park in Florida. I played with a little girl that had "Shirley Temple" curls. Oh how I wanted curly hair. Everyday her Mom would comb out each curl one at a time. I used to think how fun that must be. ...
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My first day of school was a little traumatic. We were living with the family that had a dog with different color eyes. They were an older couple. The lady peeled potatoes every afternoon. She would open a brown paper bag and spread it out on the table. Then she would...
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My earliest childhood memory is being in a hospital. My mother had gone away on a trip with one of her boyfriends. I was with a sitter and ended up with a severe case of meloncoly, otherwise known as depression in children. I ended up in the hospital for two and a half months....
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