Tag: dad
group name: childhoodstories
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August 08, 2007 09:30 PM EDT --
My Dad is 79 and has dementia; I'm his youngest child and only daughter at age 48. I don't know when the dementia started, but I started noticing it about two years ago, it seems like ninety. . . . more
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June 10, 2007 09:33 PM EDT --
Growing up in the 50s was a pleasant time. I was born in New Jersey to wonderful parents who hailed from the south, Mom from NO and Dad from NC. Unfortunately I never knew first hand about either of those . . . more
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June 06, 2007 11:07 AM EDT --
This isn’t actually a childhood memory I have concerning my dad but rather a story my dad told me about the latter part of his own childhood.
In 1950, my dad, Richard Klamm, graduated from Washington . . . more
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June 15, 2008 12:34 AM EDT --
I admire my father for so many reasons. He's honest, funny, supportive, kind loving, wise and easy going...and that's just for starters. Everyone who knows my dad, likes him.
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October 01, 2007 11:18 PM EDT --
I think he always wanted to be a cowboy, but to most he looked more like an Indian. He must have been pretty confused trying to play Cowboys and Indians as a kid. To me, when I was a kid, he was both. . . . more
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June 07, 2007 09:22 PM EDT --
I imagine it started with soft tosses to build my confidence, but what I remember is your throwing hard fastballs and nasty curves so that I'd be ready for whatever others might throw at me. . . . more
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June 11, 2007 04:07 PM EDT --
As a very, very young child, I lost my father -- a combat veteran of both Theaters of WWII, the Korean War and a former "Merrill's Marauder" who was awarded three bronze stars -- to cancer. . . . more
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June 06, 2007 07:30 PM EDT --
When Stephen was twenty-two, he was shot in the gut after a minor fender-bender.
At the trauma center, just as the surgeon was about to operate, Stephen, groggy from anesthesia, shocked the staff by grabbing . . . more
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June 06, 2007 07:53 PM EDT --
My Dad and I are 30 years apart, I will be 51 this July. Sometimes I wonder about what he was thinking on the day I was born, he already had 3 daughters and now he had another..4 little girls, Charlie's . . . more
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June 17, 2007 04:11 PM EDT --
This is one of my favorite pictures of my Dad. It was probably taken in February, 1961, not too many days after I was born. I have the greatest Dad in the world and I love him and appreciate . . . more
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July 19, 2006 05:56 PM EDT --
I was bounced around quite a bit when I was a kid.
Some experiences were good, some bad.
Please, walk with me a moment and meet,
My four dads.
First Dad.
My first father was named Richard. . . . more
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June 06, 2007 07:20 PM EDT --
Growing up, my family was my lifeline. I was born with a heart condition and was sick often and had a lot of doctor appointments . . . more
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June 07, 2007 08:38 PM EDT --
Where do I begin? My dad was a special type of man. He was my hero and my best friend. I am the only girl in a family of 5 boys. Needless to say my dad and I shared a bond that not even death could . . . more
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October 22, 2007 01:55 PM EDT --
My dad wasn't exactly the warmest fuzziest guy on the planet. The fact that he was an electirical and electronics engineer should explain some of that, but I think it also had a lot to do with . . . more
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June 05, 2007 08:15 PM EDT --
Watching Ralph Macchio play the Karate Kid may be one of the highlights of my childhood. I thought Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miagi were somewhere just down the street, in the next neighborhood waiting . . . more
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June 06, 2007 02:04 PM EDT --
There is an old adage, biblical, (for those offended, please turn back now) "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it." I am living proof that . . . more
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June 04, 2007 11:14 AM EDT --
Dads. They're teachers, role models, and so much more. We're paying tribute to dads and fatherhood in the Childhood Stories group, but we can't do it without you.
From now through Father's . . . more
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August 31, 2006 03:55 PM EDT --
This is being reposted as I had to remove it earlier when I submitted it to the Amazon Shorts Contest.
I may be 56 years old, but I still think back more than 35 years to a woman who vanished from my . . . more
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June 27, 2007 07:31 PM EDT --
Life started out simply enough for a child born in 1918.
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June 18, 2006 09:27 AM EDT --
I imagine it started with soft tosses to build my confidence, but what I remember is your throwing hard fastballs and nasty curves so that I'd be ready for whatever others might throw at me. . . . more
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