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Category: birthdays
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I gripped Daddy's hand as we crossed the parking lot and stepped into the tall building. To my right and left tall counters rimmed the room but I ignored them; all of my attention was focused on the fountain straight ahead. We crossed the spacious lobby together. Daddy's bank business would wait – we had…
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Tom and I were driving up to Maryland for the first time so I could meet his family and childhood friends before our wedding. It was my first time in Tennessee, the Carolinas and all of those other states between Texas and Maryland. What a fabulous trip – seeing the sunrise just outside of Nashville,…
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Sometimes I'm just not a very good wife. Today is Tom's birthday and I was totally unprepared. After work, I made a mad dash into town to do things I should have already taken care of…like getting him a present (or three – thanks for the tips, Robert!), a card, and picking up a cheesecake. (Dinner,…
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There came a time in high school when I was tossed out of my comfortable social nest. The group I had identified with for years…clung to like a raft in the treacherous middle and high school seas…wrapped around myself like a safe (I thought) cocoon…well, they decided one day that I just didn't belong with them anymore. I racked my…
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The sky was filled with gray clouds on my walk again this morning, but my thoughts were filled with sunshine – my Sunshine Boy, that is, which is what I call Tommy because he's been lighting up my life since the day he was born…23 years ago today. I remember the first time I held him…
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Turning onto Washington, driving toward my parents' house, is like turning pages in an old photo album – everything is much greener and the trees are much taller, but that's Chris Santiago's house on the corner…there's Karen LaRue's house – she had a big playhouse in her backyard…the Astons' house, the Andersons', the Farr's first house,…
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God smiled on my baby girl this morning in honor of her seventeenth birthday – He provided overcast skies and a few sprinkles of rain. Most people would want sunshine on their birthdays, but TG is working as a counselor at a day camp this summer; she yearned for a break from the sunshine and…
Long Hollow 