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When I was a boy growing up in Somerton, Arizona, I fancied myself to be vastly more skilled in the art of athletic competition than I was, and I suffered significantly for my foolishness. For example, I played football as a boy, and couldn't make...
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WANTED: Hero. No Experience Necessary ... Have you ever noticed how the only rotten kids always live down the street? I mean, YOU're kid… MY kid… they are learning, having problems, working them out. It is all part of growing up, gaining maturity. But the kid down the street…...
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Helen shares her memories of her pre school years in Whyalla before the days of kindegarten..
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Joyce talks about the years before going to school, the pre school years when there were no kindegartens or play groups....
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In this story Bill talks about his brothers and sisters, their education and their closeness as a family and community.
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Well, it's been a while since I first signed up for this, and this will be my first story. I've been putting it off because I really only signed up for this so I could read grandpa's stories. But then I reflected on that and realized it was pretty selfish. And...
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My grandfather, Petillo Emmett Leatherwood, loved history because he lived it. Growing up quite literally at his knee, I lived history vicariously and learned to love it, too. He was born in 1873 on a tenant farm in Bastrop County, TX. Orphaned by the death of his father at the age...
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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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