Suprise Me
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Prompted By What My Mother Told Me
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Harmonica Boy — RetroFlash
Prompted By First Memory
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Jamaica Plain housing project — age 3, going on 4
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Baby Shoes
Prompted By Memorabilia
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Baby Shoes I’m not the sentimental type, but when our son outgrew his first pair of baby shoes I decided to have them bronzed – separately. I gave one shoe to my mother-in-law who was then a widow, and the other shoe to my parents. Years later when my mother-in-law died we took back her…
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Fire Engine Red
Prompted By My First Car
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A 1971 Chevy Belair. Fire Engine Red. That was my first car. My wife and I married at the end of junior year in college. We moved my things from my dorm room to the married student housing using the big basket on my bicycle. My parents told us they would buy us a car…
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The Adventure of Reading
Prompted By What We Read
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We visited the library at least once a week. I especially loved the Montclair (Oakland CA) branch which is contained in the cutest little house, in a lovely tree lined street.
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Hyper-lucky
Prompted By Chance Encounters
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Peculiar to the English Language
Prompted By Spelling
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Rolling on a River
Prompted By Surprises
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I had a vague familiarity with the digeridoo and some of the paintings. What to expect?
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From This Old House to Property Brothers
Prompted By Home Repair
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My husband only occasionally engaged in DIY projects with me “supervising,” but we did live for 45 years in a house built in 1911. And we loved our old house, despite its frequent need for repairs.
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Mug Shots
Prompted By Photo Booths
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We were jet-lagged but happy to be in Paris in spring again. But the first full day we were there, instead of wandering the streets, taking in tulips and new leaves and La Vie en Rose, my husband and I were pounding the cement catacomb labyrinth under the Gare de Lyon. We wanted a week-long…
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