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Every Picture Tells A Story by
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Prompted By Group Photos

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My cousin recently sent me this picture, which I had never seen before, taken around 1925.
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Missing some, but not all by
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(34 Stories)

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Card catalogs, yes. Couples skate? Maybe not.
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Landmarks, Please by
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(359 Stories)

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During my years selling software and related services, from 1977-1985, I had various territories through the midwest and New England. Sometimes I drove my own car to see clients, other times I flew into cities and picked up rental cars (I always asked for small cars; I couldn’t see over the steering wheels of those…
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You Can’t Tell the Players Without a Scorecard by
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Prompted By Big Fan

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I told them I was only eight, but I promised the announcers that when I was older I would drink Stroh’s beer and use Speedway 79 gasoline.
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Untitled by
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Rodeo Rider by (1 Story)

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    .    When anyone asked about my bowed legs, I told them that I grew up on the back of a horse and had done some bronc riding on the fair circuit in California.  When they asked about going into the pros I told them I wasn’t good enough. Those questions were asked often…
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No language in common? No problem. by
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Prompted By Games People Play

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Facial expressions, body language, joviality, and many gestures can go a long way.
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Prinderella and the Cince by
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I loved fairy tales as a young girl. I remember that I was reading “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” when I fell ill during the summer of 1964 and spent a week in the infirmary. I was 11 years old, had thrown up during Sunday morning services, (Our Father, who art in Heaven…blechhh…). The whole camp used…
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Easter & Dressing Up for Church by
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Prompted By Faith

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Faith takes the form of Easter hats, nursing uniforms, Bach and carrot soup.
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Channel 56 by
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My second grade teacher, Elaine Zeve, first engenderd and fostered my desire to act as she read “Charlotte’s Web” aloud, doing all the voices and soon discovered that I had a flair for imitation and imagination myself. She came to see me in my high school plays and we were in touch until her death,…
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