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    A MEMORIAL DAY MEDITATION

    JUNE 1, 2012 1:19PM

    By Bruce Levine


    Topics: science, politics, poetry, photography, open+call, belief/religion, forgiving, breathe, families, sacrifice, killing, bombs, sadness, anger, time, soldiers, suffering, water, battles, yahweh, christ, mohammed, sons, mothers, brothers, legs, mind, torment, spaceship earth, jordan, egypt, libya, lebanon, syria, palestine, israel, pakistan, afghanistan, iraq, gods, perceptions of man, troops, physics, time, israel, palestine, daughters, sons, grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, heart, meditation, pain, virus, polio, desert, war, dead, remembering, holiday, memorial

    • 25 Ratings
    • 330 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Peg O' My Heart

    MAY 24, 2012 2:06PM

    By dirndl skirt


    Topics: my little paradise, garage to studio conversion, depression era hoarding, organizing, grandfather, assemblage art

    • 1 Ratings
    • 64 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Interviewing My Mom With Alzheimer's

    MAY 21, 2012 9:51AM

    By Mom My Hero


    Topics: relationship, love, life, caregiver, memory loss, mental illness, eldercare, husband, son, grandfather, grandmother, sister, brother, babyboomer, aging parent, memory loss, dementia, alzheimer's, daughter, mother, health, family, open call

    • 2 Ratings
    • 244 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Swimming in the Ocean

    FEBRUARY 4, 2012 12:36PM

    By PlannerDan


    Topics: freedom, growth, choices, grandfather, granddaughter, relationships

    • 3 Ratings
    • 462 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Christmas and the passing of a great man

    JANUARY 4, 2012 3:43PM

    By Heinz Thorvald


    Topics: christmas, presents, kindle fire, funeral, death, grandfather

    • 2 Ratings
    • 291 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Wisdom Of My Grandfather

    DECEMBER 6, 2011 1:35PM

    By Dicky Neely


    Topics: democrats, gop, politics, grandfather

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    • 15 Ratings
    • 1292 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    My Grandfather's Silence: Secrets Under the Bombing Above

    SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 1:30PM

    By Catherine Forsythe


    Topics: my parents' secret history, open call, family, grandfather, war, tunnels, london

    • 12 Ratings
    • 301 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Grandma’s Tale, part 9: She Has a Baby and Another Loss

    JULY 8, 2011 9:40AM

    By AtHomePilgrim


    Topics: rickets doesn't seem right because i don't believe it's fatal, childhood, dreams of death, family pain, family tragedy, family history, memories, a long time ago, detroit, italian americans, early 1920s, grandfather, grandmother, death, birth, life

    • 13 Ratings
    • 325 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Grandma’s Tale, pt 6: She Misses a Soldier and Gets Him Back

    JUNE 28, 2011 10:35AM

    By AtHomePilgrim


    Topics: grandmother, grandfather, 1910s, world war i, russia, fighting the bolshies, polar bears, 339th infantry, war, war, war, fiddlydee, courtship, letters, love

    • 1 Ratings
    • 223 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    "Sing, Walter, Sing"

    JUNE 14, 2011 11:57AM

    By Karen Ellery Jones


    Topics: grandfather, neighbor

    • 2 Ratings
    • 387 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    John's Pop Pop

    APRIL 8, 2011 11:45PM

    By John's Mom


    Topics: autism, family, health, grandfather, mother, son, baseball

    • 3 Ratings
    • 185 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    The Thing About Pens

    MARCH 18, 2011 11:07AM

    By Christina Sportiello


    Topics: grandfather, value, sentimental, stadium, yankees, tradition, family, pens, spring cleaning

    • 3 Ratings
    • 374 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Why I'm an Attic Addict

    JANUARY 6, 2011 12:07PM

    By AtticAddict


    Topics: past life, uninhabited, apocalyptic, cast-off, barn, farmhouse, vacant, mason, grandfather, i-35, oklahoma, guthrie, uncanny, objects, houses, abandoned, historic, old

    • 14 Ratings
    • 403 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Cove Road

    NOVEMBER 27, 2010 7:42AM

    By scupper


    Topics: country store, red dirt road, grandfather, hollow

    • 2 Ratings
    • 375 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Dear Russell,

    JULY 23, 2010 5:03PM

    By Lynn Lyra


    Topics: love, husband, grandfather, father-figure, child support, child abuse, forgiveness, open+call, family, father

    • 6 Ratings
    • 831 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    When Jockeys Were Rock Stars

    JUNE 19, 2010 8:45AM

    By Patie


    Topics: family, bullnettles, texas, grandpa, grandfather

    • 9 Ratings
    • 795 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Happy Father's Day Nono -We Miss You so Much!

    JUNE 19, 2010 9:43AM

    By Linda Seccaspina


    Topics: family, italy, love, grandfather, nono, father's day, eliseo seccaspina

    • 7 Ratings
    • 1143 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    The curtain between life & death

    MAY 20, 2010 5:20PM

    By Kat Hudson


    Topics: dad, mom, love, grandfather, grandmother, family, stepmonster, stepmother, burials, parents, angels, monuments, graves, life, death, mount auburn cemetery, green mount cemetery, cemeteries, cemetery

    • 5 Ratings
    • 324 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Anne Wayne Saxe Part One.

    MARCH 31, 2010 12:24PM

    By aliciasaxearts


    Topics: memoir, tough, bratty, ugly, middle class aspirations, bad heart, grandfather, five children, angry woman, lover of arts, family

    • 2 Ratings
    • 633 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Time Goes By So Slowly

    MARCH 14, 2010 1:13PM

    By Sean Previl


    Topics: acting, adult, alice in wonderland, aspergers, autism, autism spectrum, children, disability, drama, education, finale, food, grandfather, health, parents, party, social, teachers

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