Tag: family
group name: hearttugs
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June 07, 2007 03:04 PM EDT --
This has been very hard for me to write. I had thought with time the pain and the anger had gone away and in writing it I have discovered that it is still there deep within and covered with the veil . . . more
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June 23, 2007 08:36 PM EDT --
Went to Niagara Falls yesterday to hang out at their (very old, poorly laid out & decripit-looking) hospital with my dad & his wife. Stayed over at a hotel and went back this morning.......
Tongue . . . more
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February 01, 2007 10:37 AM EST --
Where is North?
It was always there on my compass,
steadfastly pointing me in the right direction.
When I made a bad choice in my life,
North turned me around and put me back on the right path. . . . more
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February 17, 2008 08:26 AM EST --
When my step-father was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in the mid 90s, it was scary but treatable. He beat it that time. Then seven years later, he had a cancerous tumor in his kidney. It was very . . . more
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October 18, 2006 06:49 PM EDT --
Something within my gut recoils as I hear the flippant response . . . again. My words, thoughts, ideas are dismissed as a husband no longer consultsthe once esteemed mental checklist of "verbal offenses." . . . more
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October 12, 2006 06:28 PM EDT --
We met at the house to disassemble their lives. In one evening, we took apart what they had created, collected, and been in their years together. We held the pieces of their lives - our history - in . . . more
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October 13, 2006 10:42 PM EDT --
She caught the misguided traitor--once known as her left hand--in time to save face, but too late to protect her emotions. Two decades of near-perfect denial washed away, dropping her in a life-changing . . . more
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April 11, 2007 09:39 AM EDT --
Yesterday my daughter and I traveled by car to Minnesota to visit my sister-in-law, her aunt and my husband's only sister. She found out two months ago that she had a brain tumor. When they . . . more
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October 15, 2006 11:10 AM EDT --
My great-grandmother died before she reached the age of 30. Repeated childbirth did her in. She was a European transplant, the educated daughter of a wealthy merchant. She left a husband and three surviving . . . more
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December 15, 2006 02:29 PM EST --
Our quarrel began the night before I was born and ended the morning she died unless, as I suspect, her spirit lingers to resent the funeral. A rational person would assume that if she knows about . . . more
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January 08, 2007 09:26 PM EST --
SAD NEWS, R.I.P. MARIO DANELO #19
SAN PEDRO, Calif. (AP) - Southern California kicker Mario Danelo was found dead Saturday about 120 feet down a rocky cliff near Point Fermin lighthouse.
The body . . . more
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May 19, 2007 02:09 AM EDT --
I saw my father cry one time
salt tears on both his cheeks.
I had never seen him weep before . . . more
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July 26, 2007 12:37 AM EDT --
Several people have remarked that they haven't seen me around as much. When I was off work with my broken arm, I had a LOT of available Gather time. Now that I am back to work, I have a . . . more
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November 12, 2006 05:51 PM EST --
The last time I went to visit Mimi we sat together in the sitting room of the residential home.
"Would you like to go for a ride"?
There was a long pause.
"No" she . . . more
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February 05, 2007 10:56 AM EST --
In 1978 I started working for Trophy Mart in Tarzana, California.
My boss was a five foot, sixty-five year old man named Herman, who thought he was 20 years old and six feet tall. To . . . more
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December 06, 2006 08:47 PM EST --
When Things Go Terribly Wrong
Usually, I don’t watch the nightly news, because I prefer to go to bed feeling like the world isn’t going to hell in a hand bag. I changed my routine Friday night . . . more
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May 16, 2007 01:10 PM EDT --
Yesterday I took my Final in Film Appreciation. It was the last Final for this semester. I so glad it's over. I honestly do love going to college, but this last semester has been a hard . . . more
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December 22, 2006 10:10 PM EST --
My mom sent this to me in an email. I found it very touching...I teared up a bit. Thought you all might enjoy it as well.
The "W" in Christmas
Each December, I vowed to make . . . more
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November 24, 2006 11:42 AM EST --
Whistling sounds howl through the night,
Bundled children hide from sight!
Glass panes rattle, shake from gales,
A wintry mix whips water and hail,
Pounds the roof, gulps snow, exhales!
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December 08, 2006 01:16 PM EST --
Funny! I thought I loved my home,
The shining chrome,
. . . more
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