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The Secretary Has A Story

The Secretary Has A Story

Hopefully if you're reading this post, you're picking up where I left off with my last one, A Photo Story featuring The Secretary. 

If not, you're not missing any background story, except for knowing who "the secretary" is. While I was writing for the Finish the Sentence Friday prompt, I dug up a bit of history by asking my mom a question. By the time I got to "The Secretary" in my post - I had another story to tell.

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A Christmas Eve Story...
From the road From the road

A Christmas Eve Story...

In December of 1977, I had just turned seven years old. A "Baby Alive" doll was on my Christmas wish list.

We had flown to Pennsylvania to visit my grandmother because she was in the hospital and we were flying back home on Christmas Eve.

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I have one of the Few Good Men...
My Daddy My Daddy

I have one of the Few Good Men...

Once upon a time, my daddy tried to marry me off to my brother's recruiter. On the day my brother's recruiter was coming to the house to meet my parents I happened to be home as well. We all answered the door. I had an attitude about my brother becoming a stereotyped knucklehead Marine...

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The [long] walk home...
Misadventures Misadventures

The [long] walk home...

My heart was pounding as the crowd grew larger and larger leaving the school grounds. I really was just trying to walk home, but I was leading a parade of instigators and Big Kim who didn’t usually walk home was somewhere back there. 

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My Daddy My Daddy

The simple life...

As I wrote this post, I heard Stevie Wonder singing and playing the keyboards; the base rocking the house from daddy’s huge speakers. I smelled sandalwood incense burning. I heard my mom talking on the telephone, envisioning the coiled cord stretched across the kitchen. I heard kids playing outside. I smelled baking bread, and spaghetti sauce simmering...

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