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Evacuee: September 1939 -1945
Eight years old and standing on the gently sloping Rye-hills of Lutterworth, overlooking the meandering river Swift lazily belieing its name as it threads its way from the Hall in the far distance on my left, then on and under the railway viaduct on my right. ...
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I had to grieve all over again when I saw my husband back to war for the second time. This time was different, because he wasn't just my husband anymore. He was now the father of my child that I was going to be raising alone. ;But it was MY job to suck it up and get on with life.And life went ...
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Family Vignette: Aunt Lib
Our Aunt Lib, not our first level Aunt (?? Dad - need your help on the family relations here !) was a tiny older woman who lived on a big old house in West Virginia. Getting to her house was always exciting. My father always ...
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Family Vignette: Uncle Hubert
My Mom has an older sister, Jane, who was married to Hubert, our Uncle Hubert Metzger. My mom was the youngest of five, and Aunt Jane and Hubert had 9 (? Mom need your help to get my facts straight!) children. They had a farm ...
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The Red Eyed Monster (aka Dad)
Our house was set on an acre of land with a full woods in the back that ran down to a two lane freeway. All mutant creatures, scary hitchhikers, vagabonds and killer animals returned from the dead in the pet cemetery had ...
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My Early Childhood
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The Past Filters In
When I'm busy and happy, I don't think much about the past. But when I'm bored, or feeling lonely, or things aren't going quite the way I want them to, I tend to regress a bit back into those moments in time ...
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Memories or Forced recollections?
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The Male Shopping Experience
My husband is tearing through the paper. He's already gotten his news from the internet but leafs through quickly. "Did you know that Amazon's stock's up 25%? That's a lot," he says admirably.
"Mmm hmmm," I nod as I read some ...
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Dear Baby Back(er) Ribs
The day is Thursday December 31, 2009 and we are about to celebrate New Year's Eve in Washington DC with family & friends. However, one of us will be "partying" less hard than the others (if eating pizza, playing games and ...
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Kevin M. Kilbane (1972-1995)
I stood outside in the numbing cold. The wind at 3am is always colder, picking up steam as it roars across Lake Erie and tumbled into Cleveland Heights. The sky was mostly clear but the stars seemed very far away. I remember ...
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Kevin Kilbane
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