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What did I want to be when I was a teenager...

Suzanna Rawlins

My career goal was to be an attorney... Mom was going to be my paralegal. I even went to Auburn and earned my BA in Political Science and Philosophy with minors in English, History and Business. (Yes over achiever I know). I even became a certified Paralegal with Mom. Then I...

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The Most I Ever Saw My Mama Hurt

Charles William Spratt

I was in the 8th grade . Didn't hurt for nothing . Had plenty of food . Plenty of clothes . I guess I was just bored . I don't know . Rotten . I was on the way home from school and I stopped in at a small supermarket ....

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My Parents Corporal Punishment

Charles William Spratt

Before I was thirteen and still living in my hometown our homes were fairly close to each other . My Dad always got home from work about 4:30 PM from the oilfield pipeyard . If I came home from school and the teacher called my mother up before I walked home...

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Playing with Fire

Tom Cormier

I just read another member's story about playing "alligator" in the red mud and digging holes in the dirt to play marbles as a kid. It inspired me to share one of my favorite "boys will be boys" stories. Me and Jerry Feldman were best of friends at 10 years old....

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Moving To A New Town

Charles William Spratt

When I was thirteen my Dad got a notice from his employer which was the pipeline division of Amoco Oil , that he was going to have to move to another town . He was being transfered to a town 50 miles away which wasn't that far but in the early...

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Grandma Beavers Pancakes

Charles William Spratt

When i was about eleven or twelve years old I went to spend the night with Grandma Beavers . When I got up in the morning she was making pancakes for breakfast . She ask me " Charles , How many pancakes do you want ? " I said " I...

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My School Memories

Lillian Cormier

I never attended Public school. I attended three different Parochial schools. My first seven years was at St. Charles in Waltham, Mssachusetts. Eighth grade was at St.Joseph's as my family had moved to the other side of Waltham. For the ninth grade and two months of the tenth grade I attended...

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My Fishing Trips

Charles William Spratt

When I was young under thirteen years of age my father decided he wanted take up fishing again like he had done when he was a child . He went and bought all of the neccasary equipment and tackle and with in a few years he knew several good fishing spots...

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How Spoiled Was I

Charles William Spratt

I was born the youngest of two boys in 1947 . The only chores I had was to get up and eat breakfast ; go to school ; collect rocks ; play with horny toads ; or dig holes in the yard to play marbles . And I couldn't even do...

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What one change would you make from your teen years?

Michael Wendel

Well without a doubt we make choices when we are young, and most of the time we are unaware that we are choosing one way or another. Despite our parents best efforts we often choose foolishly! Thinking back, the one thing I would change would have been to be more serious...

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Ken's Birthday 24th July 2011

Annie Payne

Yesterday was my son Ken's 38th birthday (yes, I can't believe it either!) and as well as the Spanish paella pan John and I bought him and the Jewish Cheesecake I baked for him, I wanted to give him something of family significance. I have had, tucked away in my jewellery...

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My Darling Jill

Millard Don Carriker

My Darling Jill Today, when “The F word” has been enshrined by the United States Supreme Court and hard core pornography is but a mouse click away, Erskine Caldwell’s book, “God’s Little Acre” could be read with impunity by any school kid. But in the `40’s, the mere mention of that...

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The Unseen Force

Sue Hill

This is written for all the people out there who are either drug-addicted or who have a loved-one who is held captive by chemical dependency - The Unseen Force. There is a strange force that lives deep in my soul, and to drive me to madness it's persistent goal. Insidiously, it creeps...

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Who was my Favorite Teacher

Sue Hill

I attended St. Patrick's School in Natick, Massachusetts from Grade 1 through Grade 8. In 1st grade, where a child is supposed to be introduced to the world of knowledge and understanding, I had a traumatic experience due to the insensitivity of one particular nun. This encounter set me up to...

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Dear Diary...A hard day on Ward 1

Annie Payne

Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE Dear Diary , I didn’t realise that nursing was going to be so difficult right when I started my first week as a nurse on Ward 1. Charge Sister T is so hard on the patients and constantly tells me to ‘sit the...

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One thing I would change....

Rachel Johnson

I wouldn't change anything I did in my adolescence.

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Teachers that Influenced Me Negatively

Jeri J Steele

In school you can be influence both negatively and positively by teachers. ..... In the new school, one day for a spelling test we had the word, "Of". Now you would think that word would be pronounced the same most places here in the united states. The teacher pronounced it nearly identical to the word "Off". I could not distinguish the difference between how she was pronouncing the two words. Both 'Off' and 'Of' sounded the same because she didn't sound like a "Texan".

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War and Romance

Millard Don Carriker

The 1940's began with hopefulness washing across the land. The "Great Depression,” under the assault of eight years of government welfare programs launched by America’s first socialistic president, while still alive and well was loosening its grip. More men were working and most children were going to bed with food in...

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Bethune Cookman

Doris Ross Reddick

The following titles are placemarks for recorded stories that will be added in the near future: Mrs Turner Morning Song Away From Home Dr Bethune

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If Only I Was Educated

Tom Cormier

We were a blue collar family through and through. From my great grandfather who was a logger in Nova Scotia to my Grandfather and then my father, who both farmed to live

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What did I want to be when I was a teenager...

The Most I Ever Saw My Mama Hurt

My Parents Corporal Punishment

Playing with Fire

Moving To A New Town

Grandma Beavers Pancakes

My School Memories

My Fishing Trips

How Spoiled Was I

What one change would you make from your teen years?

Ken's Birthday 24th July 2011

My Darling Jill

The Unseen Force

Who was my Favorite Teacher

Dear Diary...A hard day on Ward 1

One thing I would change....

Teachers that Influenced Me Negatively

War and Romance

Bethune Cookman

If Only I Was Educated

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