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Robert Wallace

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Robert Wallace

My mom, Margie, died three years ago…

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Pam Orren

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Pam Orren

The pandemic provided the perfect opportunity…

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Joyce Newcomb

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Joyce Newcomb

Blue eyes meet blue eyes.

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Hilary Ward Schnadt

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Hilary Ward Schnadt

My brothers and I each have a sleeping Santa bank…

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Nina Santucci Pozgar

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Nina Santucci Pozgar

Growing up in a family with three boys and three girls…

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Barbara Walter Hetler

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Barbara Walter Hetler

Christmas 1967.

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Jenny Klein

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Jenny Klein

I have delightful childhood memories of Christmas.

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Mary Loretta Kelly

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Mary Loretta Kelly

Mother and I were not crafters.

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Sharon Fiffer

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Sharon Fiffer

Emory Schmidt was my paternal grandfather.

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Wendy McPhee

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Wendy McPhee

When I was 10 in 1956…

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Jean Diamond

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Jean Diamond

I inherited this ornament when my mom died

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Francie Arenson Dickman

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Francie Arenson Dickman

My grandmother was lazy.

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Valerie Lewis

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Valerie Lewis

I am an immigrant.

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Larry Cohan

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Larry Cohan

This month marks the 49th year…

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Leslie Richmond Simmons

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Leslie Richmond Simmons

Fifty-one weeks of the year…

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Hilary (aka Pinky) Rose

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Hilary (aka Pinky) Rose

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Ella Weigel

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Ella Weigel

My grandmother wore a fur coat…

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Fredricka R. Maister

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Fredricka R. Maister

Remember “Suicide Is Painless,”

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Mickey Pierce Silverstein

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Mickey Pierce Silverstein

“Wasn’t that a great movie?”

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Lee Rubenstein

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Lee Rubenstein

I took up painting in 2014…

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