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I hope My Wife Approves

When I was young and DUMB and before my wife died in childbirth in 1979 at the age of 28 . I was 32 years old and she was a stay at home Mom taking care of our two sons . I would go to work and people would ask me...

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Clemmie - Doris - Clemmie

Doris Ross Reddick

As a child,Clemmie Ross predicted she would have a daughter, her name would be "Doris and she will be a teacher". Her only child's name is Doris and she became a teacher. What Mother Clemmie could not have imagined is how significant to so many other lives this love of her...

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Cutting Firewood

Millard Don Carriker

I attended a Memorial Service for my last remaining brother last Saturday. He was 84 years old, six years older than I. Although we were brothers, we grew up in a vastly different world and had strikingly different memories of our childhood and adolescence. We in the family called him “Gene.” ...

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My Jewel Tea Truck

Charles William Spratt

It always seems to me that 1956 is the year to remember. I know my Dad had a big piece of pipe fall on his leg and crush the bone in his lower leg. He was off of work for a long time. They had to put a silver plate in...

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My Best Friend

Charles William Spratt

I’ve had a lot of very good friends in my life . Some have been what you would say best friends . When my first wife died I had a fried that I worked with that I had went to Tech School with . He stuck with me like glue ....

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Christine & Tom courtship...

Christine Cormier

One late summer evening August 25, 1968 I met a boy named Tommy Cormier. He was wearing Striped bell bottoms and a cotton shirt. I had a summer dress on as it was hot that evening. My sister said there was someone waiting at the door to see me. When I...

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Crushes - A Young Girl's First Pangs of Love

Annie Payne

Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE The very first man a little girl loves is her Dad, and this special lifelong relationship should be nurtured and cherished. Like other small girls, I adored my 6’6” Dad who was always a ‘larger than life’ personality and a helpless practical...

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Friendship

Susan Darbro

Our story prompt this week is "What does a true friend mean to you, who fits that description and why?" This assignment is a lot to chew on! It isn't as easy a topic as might appear at first blush, so I decided to start by looking up the word "friend"...

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Entrepreneurship

Margaret Aranyosi

I had no idea what I was letting myself in for.

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"Breaker, Breaker"

Millard Don Carriker

Like its long-ago predecessor, the CB Radio, the Internet may drown in its own capability. A mosquito dies under a fatal slap and its demise will be reported, analyzed, and dissected in some niche on the Internet within minutes. Amateurs and professionals race to see who will be the first to...

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Love of My Life....

Suzanna Rawlins

Over the years I had lots of boyfriends, but somehow for me marriage wasn't in the stars. I was very career focused and really hadn't found The One. I dated but just hadn't had that spark. And as fiercely independent as I am, well, marriage wasn't really high on my list...

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My Truest Friend

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A sign once read, "A good friend will bail you out of jail. A true friend will be in jail with you saying, "Damn that was fun." I have had many "good" friends in my life. Many could even qualify as true friends. I can recall deeply loyal friendships in my...

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Great Expectations

Janet Holt

My parents owned a small business and worked incredibly long hours. This was in the 50s when working women were still something of an oddity and most of the women on our block were stay-at-home moms. In our unconventional household, my older sister, Jackie, and I were expected to assume the...

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First Love

Janet Holt

You know how some people just love reminiscing about high school and never miss a reunion? I'm not one of them. In fact, I probably wouldn't attend a high school reunion if they held it in my living room. It was three years of pure torture for me--an endurance event. It...

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Lucky Tiger

Millard Don Carriker

Walk westerly a hundred steps or so from Winklers’ Drug Store in Caney Kansas around 1945 and you’d find yourself in front of one of the most consistently busy “stores” in town: Floyd Swayne’s Barber Shop. This was a male kingdom. If testosterone had color you could have seen it oozing...

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Mr. Christmas

Dennis Stack

Defining Moments Since becoming a StoryKeeper I’ve found something. Every one of us has defining moments in our life, an event or experiences of such physical or emotional intensity that it has a profound impact on the nature and direction of our life. Moments such as...

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So Goes Glory

Millard Don Carriker

A mile or so north of town Cheyenne Creek ran under a bridge on US Highway 75. It was an old bridge with ornamental concrete balustrades fencing in the sides of the highway to keep cars from plunging into the water below. On each end of the bridge there was a...

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Can While You Can

Millard Don Carriker

One of Mother’s many household duties during the summer when vegetables and fruits were ripe was to can as many fruits and vegetables as she could. The only canning process available brought with it a tour in the very fires of hell. Vegetables tend to ripen in the hottest part of...

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My First Serious Love Relationship

Golden V. Adams Jr.

I returned from my LDS Mission to The Netherlands in December, 1965 and continued my studies at Utah State University. Having really struggled with the freshman year of college before my mission, I was coming back near the level of probation. My mode of transportation was a bicycle and this posed...

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What I Owe the USO

Millard Don Carriker

The “Korean Police Action,” as Truman called it, had been fought up and down that miserable peninsula for many bloody months and had come to a point where daily “success” was measured by how many North Korean and Chinese dead bodies had been created that day. It looked as if it...

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