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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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1655 Views

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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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1477 Views

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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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Crushes - A Young Girl's First Pangs of Love

Annie Payne

Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE The very first man a little girl loves is her Dad, and this special lifelong relationship should be nurtured and cherished. Like other small girls, I adored my 6’6” Dad who was always a ‘larger than life’ personality and a helpless practical...

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Friendship

Susan Darbro

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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Entrepreneurship

Margaret Aranyosi

I had no idea what I was letting myself in for.

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"Breaker, Breaker"

Millard Don Carriker

Like its long-ago predecessor, the CB Radio, the Internet may drown in its own capability. A mosquito dies under a fatal slap and its demise will be reported, analyzed, and dissected in some niche on the Internet within minutes. Amateurs and professionals race to see who will be the first to...

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Love of My Life....

Suzanna Rawlins

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 Truest Friend

Tom Cormier

A sign once read, "A good friend will bail you out of jail. A true friend will be in jail with you saying, "Damn that was fun." I have had many "good" friends in my life. Many could even qualify as true friends. I can recall deeply loyal friendships in my...

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