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My Favorite Mother's Day
She walked slowly across the room, orange juice sloshing onto the tray, in spite of her efforts not to tilt it. A towel flung over one shoulder, he followed close behind, a small dish balanced precariously in one hand. They stopped at the foot of the bed. ''Now, Shell?'' he asked, in a loud stage whisper. ''When I count three,'' she whispered ...
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Gayle Mattern
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May 10, 2009
In An Unorthodox Move, Grandpa Proves The Existence of Santa
All the glum economic talk is enough to make us want to fold up our Christmas trees and forget about the holidays. I've been thinking, though, about my grandparents, who lived in a kind of permanent recession, which raising nine kids will do. There was never enough money to go around, needless to say. In the early years they farmed, and later ...
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Gayle Mattern
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December 24, 2008