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To Be or Not to Be, that is the Question by
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Grandmothers and their joys and waiting patiently for what will be.
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Four Morally Ambiguous Cheating Vignettes by
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Prompted By Cheating

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Example 1: High School, 1968. Trigonometry test. I walked by the desk of a girl I liked – not romantically, but a nice friend. I looked at her test sheet, and quietly said words to the effect: “problem 12 – divide by two.” She did, thereby earning 5 more points. My rationale: She obviously understood…
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As The Irish Say: Me Mom by
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I hope when you grow up you'll have kids just like you.
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In the Before Time Retroflash. by
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Prompted By Broadcast News

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In the Before time, every evening the news god spoke.
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Can’t Bust ‘Ems by
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Prompted By What We Wore

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I still own a pair of black Can’t Bust ‘Em dungarees that I wore while working as a timber cutter at the Buckshot mine in Eldora, Colorado. I don’t wear them anymore — I’m a little beyond a 1970 waistline — but the rugged old pants still sport the brass buttons sewn onto the beltline…
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Holidays Past and Now, Memories of Italian Songs by
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Prompted By Pandemic Holidays

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Each year, everyone complained that we were not spending enough time with them.
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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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Freezer Money by
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Prompted By Best Advice: Money

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Two hundred dollars in - excuse the expression - cold, hard cash.
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I Will Survive by
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Prompted By Illness

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On March 10, 2008, I had my annual mammogram. Never a pleasant experience, but tolerable, and I dutifully went every year without giving it much thought. That year was different. A few days afterwards the imaging center called me and said they wanted to do another mammogram of my right breast, so on March 20…
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“All the News That’s Fit to Print” Should Still Be in Print by (3 Stories)

Prompted By Newspapers

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The gradual decline of print newspapers is a great sadness to me. While I do read the news online, it is not the same. I can only describe it as a loss of serendipity.
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