Tag: family
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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June 16, 2006 04:47 AM EDT --
I believe every child deserves a special, never-have-to-share toy. House rule said this toy stayed out of sight when friends come around. Jessica . . . more
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August 14, 2006 05:05 PM EDT --
I shared my childhood experience, knowing she would ignore me the same as I had shunned those who tried to warn me. Glasses and braces . . . more
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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 05, 2007 03:45 PM EDT --
It was a perfect May morning. The sky was clear and the temperature was mild. It was one of those pregnant with possibility days, the kind of day that would make S. Clay Wilson's Checkered . . . more
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June 12, 2006 11:43 AM EDT --
My dad died several years ago.
You didn't know him.
Then again, maybe you did.
My dad was the guy on the boardwalk wearing black socks and sandals, the guy at the checkout counter who couldn't . . . more
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April 18, 2006 08:11 AM EDT --
I found an old journal this past weekend and made the painful choice to read through it. It is almost twenty years old, and it covers most of two years with a few pages of the years after. Those were some . . . more
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June 06, 2007 09:13 AM EDT --
Forty years ago today my dad died. I was 12. Being 12 in 1967 was much different then being 12 in 2007. I was still more child then adult. I worshipped my dad, he was my best friend. . . . 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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November 05, 2007 02:16 PM EST --
This was Harley's and Sophia's second Halloween. They were to little last year to even know at all what was going on. This year, as usual my daughters can't get motivated until . . . more
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August 10, 2007 12:14 AM EDT --
After reading some of the embarrassing moments stories here, I have one to add. This occurred in about 1961, give or take a year or so. Some of the details have faded from my memory over the years.
Several . . . more
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July 13, 2006 02:27 PM EDT --
"So, I'll call you tomorrow after I am coherent," she says.
"Are you ever coherent?" I retort.
"Not most of ever..." She was already losing coherence, due . . . more
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July 26, 2006 08:41 AM EDT --
It seems like we did a lot of posing in the yard or on the front porch on Sundays. When you have three boys you have to find activities for them that require a lot of standing around so you can keep them . . . more
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November 11, 2007 10:12 PM EST --
The most beautiful things in the world are not seen or touched. They are felt with the heart.--Helen Keller
I'm a plus-sized woman...which makes me positive, . . . more
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July 25, 2006 09:53 PM EDT --
We are sitting on the deck of the house Dad built, most of it with his own hands. I remember "helping" to clear the land when I was about eight years old. It was a summer house until we moved . . . more
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May 25, 2006 01:37 PM EDT --
The Package
As I was talking on the phone one day to my daughter Mandi, she asked me if I would be home the following Saturday (the day before Mothers day). I said of course, but why? She told . . . more
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October 29, 2006 08:29 AM EST --
"Please look, please look up,
You're not listening with your eyes"
Said the little girl.
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May 07, 2006 08:55 PM EDT --
My paternal grandfather took my grandmother to Hawaii for their 50th wedding anniversary. It was a wonderful trip, they reported, except that the commode in their hotel ran all the time. So, on the second . . . 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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