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The Tax of Life by
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(41 Stories)

Prompted By Taxes

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Word Games by
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(90 Stories)

Prompted By Games People Play

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This time I was prepared. I knew what they wanted: not only smarts, but big energy, personality plus.
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Rock and Roll Never Forgets by
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(302 Stories)

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Sixties and Seventies music is still the best!
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Detroit Storm, 1990 by
200
(359 Stories)

Prompted By Lightning

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After I married and moved to the Boston area, I stayed away from Detroit for a long while. Once I had children, the urge to share happy venues from my childhood lured me back. My father died suddenly when my second child was just eight months old, on January 3, 1990. We had the unveiling…
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The Gurney by
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(346 Stories)

Prompted By The ER

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The Gurney Like many parents I’m sure,  we made several trips to the ER when our child was young. I remember once when our son was a toddler he split his lip falling in our apartment.  I couldn’t stench the blood and so my husband and I took him to the ER at our local…
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Exam Week and Daiquiri Parties by
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(194 Stories)

Prompted By Exams

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As exam week progressed, we could hear clack, clackety-clack, ding!!, clack, clack, from the living area and dorm rooms in the entire wing, along with the crinkle of bags of potato chips and Cheetos.
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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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Finding the Perfect Gift by
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(298 Stories)

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When my kids were young, they eagerly anticipated the Toys R Us holiday gift catalog every November.
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1776 by
50
(88 Stories)

Prompted By Independence

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Don't miss the show-stopper, "Molasses to Rum to Slaves," about Northern complicity in the slave trade. Seriously.
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The Kitchen by
100
(170 Stories)

Prompted By Recipes

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Good gawd how we tried.
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