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Two of my earliest ancestors that I could identify were Cassie Williams and her daughter, Phillis Smith. As the story goes, Cassie Williams was one of three slave girls in Georgia. Although I haven't been able to verify this story, or her country of origin, our family has been able to...
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As my body bounced against the rocks, my thoughts raced! "Is this the way I will meet my demise?"
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Along about 1967 the tsunami of money from the Federal Government to “Education” that was created by the nerve shattering “beep-beep-beeping” of the world’s first space vehicle had reached its crest and was receding. It was Russia’s vehicle. . . and it was called “Sputnik” or fellow traveler. Those beeps were...
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It never occurred to me that I would actually pray for my father to die. But watching someone suffer from cancer brings changes to people. Especially if the person suffering is someone we love. When my father had a lung biopsy which revealed that he had lung cancer, he...
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If you picture a valley as a bowl or a long trough between lines of mountains, Caney is not in a valley. But Urban S. Gibbs, a patriarch who had the stern, unforgiving look of John Brown, was President of our bank and keeper of Caney’s money. He called his bank...
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If I could choose an ethnicity to be born in, I would definitely ask to be born a Polynesian! In my experience there are three main reasons I would choose this. First, the people are the most warm and loving I have ever known. They care. There are no attachments...
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