Suprise Me

My Celebrity Crushes by
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Prompted By The Crush

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In July of 2018, Arthur Andrew Gelien died. I knew him as Tab Hunter and had his picture pasted in a scrapbook devoted to my celebrity crushes. I was my granddaughter’s age when I swooned to his song Young Love and watched him in the movie Damn Yankees. He was cute and, like several of…
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Protected: My Favorite Children’s Books — In Retrospect by
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Prompted By Children's Books

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Protected: Inauguration Organization by
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Prompted By Inaugurations

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Best Gift Ever by
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Other than possibly a bicycle I got for Christmas when I was 11 or 12 years old, I cannot recall any gift I ever received as being so special that I’ve kept it, or remembered one so fondly that I’d consider it my best ever.  It might just be that I did not pay enough…
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Protected: Nick Burns, Your Company’s Computer Guy by
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The Diary of a Young Girl by
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Prompted By Libraries

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Among my friends and the distaff side of my family are many very accomplished women – doctors, nurses and therapists, a pharmacist and a research scientist, lawyers, two judges and a diplomat, a film editor, a TV producer and a theatrical director, several writers and artists, and a publisher and two poets. Also among them…
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Skippy and Chester by
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Prompted By Pets

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Alcohol and pet adoption shouldn't mix.
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Typewriters by (1 Story)

Prompted By Good Riddance

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I think I had an Olympus manual typewriter in college. Compared with my handwriting, it made things look pretty nice. But if you had to make a change, or if you had a typo, you were in big trouble.
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Do You See The Darkness Or The Light by
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Prompted By Disasters

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Personally I feel what most people consider a disaster in reality is quite the contraire. Not at all unlike the way most people see events in life, so many seem to see the dark side of so much instead of the light on the other side. This is the way man has survived countless centuries.…
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Second Hand Rose by
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Prompted By Yard Sales

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“What in the world will we do with all this stuff?” Soon after our mother passed away, my sister and I were faced with the daunting task that so many of our generation are dealing with these days: sorting through a lifetime’s accumulation of clothes, jewelry, tchotchkes, and mementos. Drawer after drawer revealed scarves, purses,…
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