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My Pink Dress by
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(90 Stories)

Prompted By Lost and Found

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The Pink Dress None of this was supposed to happen: not finding the dress, not losing the dress, and certainly not finding it again. But that’s what did happen.   In the days before you could make online reservations, my husband used the services of a trusted travel agent for his business trips and some…
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Missed the Party by
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(359 Stories)

Prompted By The ER

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When Dan does something, he gives it 100% and that was the way he again took up bicycling in 2018. He had his first bike accident the day he got his fancy new bike. The tubeless tires fell apart, so that accident wasn’t on him, though he was still taken to the ER and I,…
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Are you kidding me ! by
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Do You Believe ?
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An Afternoon With Mrs. Jack by
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(359 Stories)

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I took a course on Northern Renaissance painting with Professor Ludovico Borgo in my last semester at Brandeis. For our final project, we had to write a research paper on a painting from that era that we could visit in person. We had to analyze the provenance of the work, history of restorations, and research…
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The Bombs Bursting in Air by
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Prompted By Fireworks

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I know I will hear those bombs bursting in air every July. And while the fireworks displays are beautiful, these sounds do not feel celebratory. They remind me of guns and war, not patriotism.
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Late to Cooking by
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(12 Stories)

Prompted By Learning To Cook

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How I progressed from zero cooking to pretty good.
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Unkie by
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(24 Stories)

Prompted By Aunts & Uncles

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    Unkie (Aunts and Uncles) My uncle was a sailor in the war. I called him Unkie. My earliest memories of him had him in that dark blue wool uniform with the white cap; the square shoulder flap like a small cape. Since our extended family treated him with such respect, I did too.…
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Tossing the Dice by
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(298 Stories)

Prompted By Dice

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Not easy for a woman who hates to gamble. But nothing in life is ever a sure bet.
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It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To by
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(302 Stories)

Prompted By Parties

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I love parties! I almost always have a great time at them. Certainly college parties are among my fondest memories of those years. But for me, the good ones don’t seem to make for interesting stories. So here’s a story about the worst party of my life. 1966. The drinking age in New Jersey was…
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The time I didn’t stand up by
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(77 Stories)

Prompted By Regrets

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Within the next few years, the American Academy of Pediatrics would declare that no child should have her or his recess taken away because of their classroom conduct,..
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