Tag: memories
member name: Elizabeth S.
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November 22, 2008 07:11 PM EST --
Maybe because this is the Dallas area, but today has always been something special here. I thought quite a few Gatherites would have posted their tributes. All the threats being tossed around about . . .
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December 01, 2008 05:56 AM EST --
My father's brother and my mother's sister got married about five weeks after I was born. Now my aunt may have thought my uncle was a good catch since he graduated from college at a time when . . .
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December 30, 2008 06:39 PM EST --
My ex lost his father this last year and his mother passed away years ago. This Christmas he had planned to go visit his adult retarded sister who is living with their aunt. Initially he planned on visiting . . .
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November 25, 2008 02:25 PM EST --
Heaven must have a special place for the ignorant. Either I thought that I had the genes to be a good cook since all the women in both sides of my family were or I was so dumb I thought it was just a . . .
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October 24, 2009 10:14 PM EDT --
I had set a newspaper aside in August and just read it this week. There's an article about the talented Barbara Streisand. She's happy with homes she has decorated, her great husband and the life she . . .
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December 13, 2009 08:17 PM EST --
Today I realized again how silly I can be. Normally, I think of Christmas when it starts getting dark around 5 p.m. and people turn on the lights. I thought my lack of Christmas spirit was maybe . . .
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January 10, 2009 04:45 PM EST --
My mother announced Christmas that she and my stepfather were looking into retirement villages. This was a surprise on many levels. Since they got married almost 33 months ago, neither wanted to give . . .
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November 04, 2008 01:45 PM EST --
There's something about the stories I read on Gather that make me nostalgic. I keep thinking I'll start a group for people to post their memories of their grandparents.
Politics were important . . .
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November 17, 2008 03:55 PM EST --
Both my parents were 1 of 7 kids, so we always had a big group for the holiday get togethers. Anything less than 30 people was uncomfortably small. The first Thanksgiving at my house had 52 relatives. . . .
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December 10, 2008 05:05 PM EST --
UK grandmother Frances Fearn has a long lasting Christmas tradition. Her husband Geoff, who died last year, received an 18" Christmas tree from his grandmother for his first Christmas. . . .
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December 30, 2008 11:04 PM EST --
While I'm not fond of shopping more than an hour at a time, I love buying gifts for people. When I first graduated from college, I enjoyed being one of the family members that got gifts for all the . . .
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December 04, 2008 07:08 PM EST --
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags?...
Gift bags. I wrap like a clumsy 5 year old.
2. Real tree or Fake....
None this year. I love real trees, but we are allergic. This hear all of us are having allergy . . .
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December 12, 2008 04:02 PM EST --
When I was very young, my father joined with an old friend to revitalize or start churches in rural areas. We'd travel 90 miles to go to church every Sunday morning and stay all day. My father would . . .
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