Tag: family
group name: adore
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April 21, 2006 05:03 PM EDT --
Gene has a special grin that he reserves for when he is scooped up and carried some place. I call it his Prince of the World grin. Gene has Down Syndrome and Autism but he can walk. He can actually walk . . . more
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April 21, 2006 06:54 PM EDT --
I Wonder
Another sleepless night has fallen upon my restless soul. I listen to the rumbling of distant thunder amidst the silence I sit in. I wait for my mesmeric Anna to come home at her 2am curfew . . . more
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April 24, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
I have no idea where the heck to start, just that my phone rang at 6:50 AM thkis morning with Mom asking me to e-mail Uncle Jorn, and tell him that Morfar had died, because (as usual) she coudln't . . . more
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May 02, 2006 04:54 PM EDT --
We took the dogs to the vet today. Only one came home. Skipper is already missing little Diamond, and I waver between tearfilled sadness and relief. Deep in my heart I knew she was edging closer . . . more
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January 07, 2007 02:32 AM EST --
An eerie absence of everything familiar troubled Ben, yet he hesitated to move since the bed felt more comfortable than it had in years. He compromised; didn't move a muscle other than . . . more
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June 12, 2006 08:21 PM EDT --
I Wish You a Wedding to Forget
by
Aileen Fish
Originally published in the Newhall (CA) Signal, March 9, 1989.
I can't believe my brother wants to get married this June. It's not the normal . . . more
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September 16, 2006 02:34 PM EDT --
Sandy's article got me thinking about what Love is and the many faces and moods it has.
Almost everyone can agree on what romantic love looks and feels like. It is the passionate and . . . more
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August 23, 2006 04:43 PM EDT --
Ella was born July 30, and I've been out in NJ visiting and "bonding" with her. Actually helping my daughter with getting back into the motherhood action. Her other child . . . more
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May 03, 2006 08:06 AM EDT --
To My Mother
God couldn't be everywhere, and so he created mothers. Anonymous.
A red headed little girl were you
Special to this world
You had to have that special cow's milk
Hair with bouncing . . . more
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May 19, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
Shortly after Ma died my cousin's wife died in Ireland. I was about to ring her to say that would be with her within the week, when the phone rang with the news. She had died in the night. . . . more
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July 25, 2006 09:53 PM EDT --
We are sitting on the deck of the house Dad built, most of it with his own hands. I remember "helping" to clear the land when I was about eight years old. It was a summer house until we moved . . . more
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September 12, 2006 10:45 PM EDT --
I wish I were you, you could be me.
If you saw through my eyes it would be easy to see.
If you felt my pain you would then understand.
You would not judge, you would make a stand.
You tell me you love . . . more
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October 11, 2006 04:12 AM EDT --
I was "resting my eyes" when I felt a tentative small hand on mine.
"Nonni" came the whisper.
"Hm"?
"Why are you asleep with your glasses on"?
"The better . . . more
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April 17, 2006 01:51 AM EDT --
My granddaughter is deaf. Actually, with her hearing aid, and reading lips, she can do quite well, though I often have trouble understanding what she has said to me. I've not always been quite . . . more
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April 20, 2006 12:17 AM EDT --
Buttons, coffee,
books and love,
that's what the woman
was made of.
Tears, pain
black eyes too,
but she loved me,
and she loved you.
Nights of horror
nights of shame;
we all know who
must . . . more
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May 11, 2006 10:58 AM EDT --
I used to wonder when the world would end. I hoped that it would.
I'm referring to my father's remarriage to my stepmother. It was a nightmare for the entire time between the beginning of the . . . more
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May 14, 2006 08:37 AM EDT --
From the time I was a toddler I assumed that like any woman, I would one day bear children and become a mother. It was a given in the early 1950's when the women's movement was just gearing up . . . more
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May 25, 2006 01:37 PM EDT --
The Package
As I was talking on the phone one day to my daughter Mandi, she asked me if I would be home the following Saturday (the day before Mothers day). I said of course, but why? She told . . . more
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September 17, 2006 05:48 AM EDT --
She whispered to me
"I'm Marilyn Monroe's mother"
"She's lovely" I said
And she glowed with quiet pride,
Smiling at a secret shared.
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April 17, 2006 12:20 AM EDT --
"Mommy why do angels have wings." The little boy asked his mother.
Holding his hand she thought for a moment. Licking her lips and allowing the soft words to roll . . . more
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