Tag: brothers
group name: childhoodstories
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April 21, 2006 05:03 PM EDT --
Gene has a special grin that he reserves for when he is scooped up and carried some place. I call it his Prince of the World grin. Gene has Down Syndrome and Autism but he can walk. He can actually walk . . . more
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September 01, 2006 06:27 AM EDT --
There were seven of us boys growing up and over the years we had quite a few pets. Our favorites were probably that old orange stripped tabby cat named Plus and a Weimeraner-lab mix dog named Minus.
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November 17, 2006 11:47 PM EST --
As I had once said, "it's not what you don't have but what you do have." What I didn't have as a kid growing up mattered not so much as what I did have. Yes, it's true that I . . . more
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July 18, 2006 02:03 PM EDT --
And then, there was the time that my brother Peter thought that our cat was a Russian spy. This was in the late 50's when America and Russia were still dancing around each other trying to prove who . . . more
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March 22, 2008 02:18 AM EST --
David always stuck up for me. Always. When I was in first grade, David was in fifth grade. One morning we were got to school an as we walked across the playground, a big kid yelled . . . more
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July 30, 2006 12:01 AM EDT --
No Pie Tonight
My Mommy told me to be nice,
My Daddy told me twice,
My Sister told me nighty-nigh,
and my brother ate my pie.
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April 24, 2007 11:25 AM EDT --
We've all heard the saying "Kids say the darndest things", and for anybody here who has children, or who has dealings with children, you know how true that is! Not only does my 3 year old . . . more
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April 14, 2008 12:25 AM EDT --
The boys and I decided to take advantage of the beautiful 70 degree weather on Saturday and go to the park. They rode their bikes and I walked.
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April 13, 2008 02:59 PM EDT --
My son and his wife had their fourth child on 1/25/08. Ok my daughter-in-law was the one who actually gave birth, my son just sort of stood there.
This is Ayla June
This . . . more
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September 30, 2007 12:14 PM EDT --
Things grow quiet in our room above the vineyard. The martins have gone, and Autumn comes on swiftly throughout this hillside world. I look from the window and see the mist rolling across the . . . more
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August 03, 2006 10:17 PM EDT --
When I was six
and my brother was seven,
he made me cry today.
"You pansy," he said.
"You're the pansy," I said,
with my fist full of leaves, . . . more
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September 22, 2006 02:02 AM EDT --
THISTLES - and the like
Poking through my socks,
they gang up on my ankles,
like mobsters with ice picks,
lusting for cotton and flesh
Thumbs and fingers
bleeding,
Picking angry . . . more
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June 15, 2007 11:02 AM EDT --
Country Inns & Suites 20th Anniversary Sweepstakes:
Be Our Guest!
Register for your chance to win a destination reunion trip for up to twenty people at any one of the featured destination reunion . . . more
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July 02, 2007 03:27 PM EDT --
(I wouldn’t be much of a host if I didn’t partake in this calling for self humiliation articles, so here is mine. Enjoy yourself at my expense. - C)
Even though it’s . . . more
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February 05, 2007 06:07 PM EST --
My sons had been outside shoveling winter snow out of our driveway. My younger son took off his boots and set them near the couch and set down to relax. His brother Dan age 14 at the time came . . . more
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June 08, 2006 01:09 AM EDT --
Bob made an unusual attempt to seek me out that day, he needed to tell me he loved me. He told me all the reasons why, and I told him too. He assured me, he would always love me - no matter . . . more
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September 11, 2006 03:23 PM EDT --
The Family Files series of literary poems by Douglas Gilbert. Adapted for use as classroom discussion prompts, these short poems include themes of child neglect and abuse, family secrets (myths), . . . more
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May 16, 2007 09:06 PM EDT --
I wrote this in February, 1991. Larry was my boyfriend at the time.
Sometimes I don't know who I
am when I am with
Larry. Like Friday at his apartment. I
woke . . . more
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December 29, 2006 08:50 PM EST --
It was about 1965 in December, we were on break for the holidays and being bored I wanted to do something different. So seeing fresh snowfall and being the teenage girl I was at the time, I got this . . . more
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February 03, 2007 04:29 AM EST --
A true story, as told by Jennine Donier, Copyright February, 2nd, 2007
The Hillbillies and The Hell's Angels
We were living in Trout Lake, Washington, I was about 17 then, Dad had built a small cabin . . . more
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