Today's Stories from the Retrospect Archive
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Been Too Long at the Fair
Despite the title, from a song I love, for me there is no such thing as being too long at the fair!
They Say It’s Your Birthday
My birthday falls at the end of August, which is a lovely time of year, but a terrible time to have a birthday when you are young.
My Favorite Things
I have so much memorabilia that I don't even know where to start writing about it.
It All Came Together
There is a certain time in one’s life when she knows she is ready; she is in her prime. That happened for me the summer [...]
Hot turkey sandwiches at the Claremont Diner
The diner's booths were large enough to swallow a child as small as I was.
Baby You Can Drive My Car
The driving age in NJ, where I grew up, was 17 for some reason, even though in almost every other state in the union it was 16.
Yin and Yang
Freshman year spring term. As Dickens opened A Tale of Two Cities, the best of times and the worst of times. The best [...]
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