Tag: growing
group name: childhoodstories
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April 09, 2008 09:49 AM EDT --
It has been suggested that I was abused at times as a child, and on a few occurences, I'm pretty sure those observations are probably correct. However, the one thing that I really resented as . . . more
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September 13, 2006 05:16 PM EDT --
During the early years of my childhood I had a friend named Mina who lived three doors down. Mina's mother bought cigarettes by the carton, kept the cigarettes in her daughter's dresser, . . . more
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March 15, 2007 01:23 AM EST --
When I turned five I remember my Daddy going away for awhile. I didn’t know where he was, but Mama said he had gone to another city to get a job. I thought he would just go there for awhile and then . . . more
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November 16, 2006 12:33 PM EST --
I was eight years old in 1963 when the Beatles hit it big.
I remember my sister and her friend running into the house saying "Turn on the radio, you've got to hear this new song." . . . more
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May 17, 2006 10:54 AM EDT --
I copied this from a forward because I couldn't believe how many of these I could relate to! How about you ladies?
I added a few at the end
If YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL IN THE 70'S ... . . . more
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September 13, 2006 10:13 AM EDT --
As some of you may know I have taken in a stray 17 year old. Her mom died a couple of years ago and she has drifted from her father's house to friend after friend and finally to living in her car. . . . more
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May 13, 2006 09:42 AM EDT --
Dear Mom,
Since I was a little girl, you have always been there for me. When I was small, you bandaged scraped knees and kissed away tears. As I grew into a young woman, you gave wise words of advice . . . more
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June 25, 2006 09:43 PM EDT --
rarely do we play on the road-side of our house. we're always by the lake. of course! who wouldn't choose to be by water? still, lillie wants to ride her bike on the road sometimes. her bike is . . . more
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March 11, 2007 04:09 PM EST --
I remember being four-years-old and living in a little white house in Greenville, SC on Sunset Drive. I thought we would always live there, in my mind, at that time, I didn’t know things changed . . . more
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November 04, 2006 02:29 AM EST --
"You know that you can't marry your cousin. It is just not allowed," my momma said, sternly.
"Why not?"
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"No more questions, I'm driving. . . . more
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April 08, 2006 06:00 PM EDT --
I didn't know Aunt Polly well but I suppose I liked her. She lived alone, one town over on the first floor of a large, three story, twin house, close enough to walk, though I never did. She was my . . . more
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September 04, 2006 09:20 PM EDT --
"Conserving gasoline isn't something new," my mother explained as we talked about the high gas prices and how the certainly made us more conscious of how we traveled, even for short distances. . . . more
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April 27, 2006 07:47 AM EDT --
A Lesson From Dad
I'm not sure I actually remember breaking the window but I certainly do remember learning how to fix it. It was one of those incidents of childhood, retold so often that it becomes . . . more
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September 17, 2006 11:30 PM EDT --
This Gather thing would have driven me crazy when I was 14.
I grew up in a town of 700 people that shut down in the winter. There were people there, but the deep snow increased . . . more
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September 01, 2006 10:20 PM EDT --
Ruth Stewart was so kind as to trigger an urge to write about my parents. She said "I bet it was the best day you and your father ever had..... ", and I had to think. Yes it was pretty . . . more
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April 21, 2006 01:04 PM EDT --
Forty-eight years ago I lost my name. More accurately, I gave my name away. I let it go eagerly, like a balloon released into the sky or like a stone dropped from a cliff into the ocean. I had no idea . . . more
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August 20, 2008 05:36 PM EDT --
...and I have to say, that she is probably the cutest, prettiest little thing that has ever exsisted! We walked over to my grandparents house (they live across the street) and I pulled out my camera to . . . more
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August 04, 2006 11:34 PM EDT --
Audio.
Lights.
Consciousness.
The woman was standing behind a counter of sorts, talking to someone on the phone. She looked at me and said "Hold on just a moment."
"Are . . . more
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April 11, 2006 07:55 PM EDT --
When I was in High School, and spring break rolled around, my dad always asked me which job I was going to try down at his packing plant. Damned if inventory control wasn't always full, as was fork-lift . . . more
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April 18, 2006 10:35 AM EDT --
When I was 10 years old my mom moved us to the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, to an avenue named Wayne. My first day there a vertically challenged 13 year old with the worst perm I have ever seen, said . . . more
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