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I was born on March 28, 1950 at 9:30 A.M.. at the City Hospital in Manhattan, New York. Better known as "Welfare Island". My mother, Alta Virginia, aka Bunny, lived at 311 West 94th Street in New York City. Her maiden name was Beach. Mom was 24 years old at the...
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Home The memory comforts me Home, a house set in a garden, abounding in seasonal colors and fragrances A mixture of old and new- wood, glass and trim The back yard-tall pines Fresh fallen pine needles Its essence, the purring of the attic fan On a hot summer night...
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Miss Ruth Hide Details FROM: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. TO: Tom Tirrell Message starred Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:20 PM Miss Ruth Price Sometime about 1950 when I was ten years old, a unique person came into my life. Like many of the good things that happened to me, this came about because...
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In my spare time I do some volunteer work as a secretary for a fairly large church organization. There is always someone to do for, as there was one day recently. I arrived late, and I found a little girl quietly minding her...
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FUR My wife and I had wanted a little piece of farm land for years, and we ended up buying a 14 acre piece which was crowned with the biggest mistake of our marriage: a small, used double-wide mobile home. Now, don't take offense, ye salespersons of "manufactured...
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Ruth tells of activities of her brothers Ted and Hank who were in their teens when she was in her early childhood, and how she worried about their involvement with the streetcars that ran in front of their home on Seventh East in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Jill talks about playing board games as a child, her favourite books and outdoor activities and her friend, Maria.
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Jill talks about her carefree childhood growing up in Clare South Australia. She tells us how she played dolls and dress up with her friends and describes a variety of other childhood games.
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I have so many fond memories of my childhood home at 70 Rockland St, Natick, Massachusetts. Surrounded by family farms, the little home was the first for my Mom and Dad to own. As their family grew to 10 kids Dad had to keep adding space. We were all packed into...
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It cut her head wide open and she went screaming to her house. When I saw all that blood, I ran into my house to hide
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You might be thinking, "What the heck is he talking about?" As I was growing up in North Conway, N.H., the most common type of home in the area was a Cape Cod style with a full basement. Most people never finished off the basement so the steps downstairs were usually...
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When I was much, much younger, and that was a long, long time ago, because I have always been as old as I am now--life was lived at a different pace. For one thng, we lived in black and white and often the contrast between those colors was muted. I remember...
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