Results of the Summer Writing Contest will be announced September 9, as will news of an October 25 reading in Evanston to benefit Humble Design Chicago.

Rebecca Dudley

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Rebecca Dudley

It’s hard to fall asleep…

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Patti Sensenbrenner

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Patti Sensenbrenner

Seventeen years ago...

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Paul Watkins

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Paul Watkins

At the age of thirteen, maybe fourteen…

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Nell Minow

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Nell Minow

Most of the tributes to my father…

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Keiler Roberts

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Keiler Roberts

Sometime in the ‘90s…

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Loree Sandler

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Loree Sandler

Leslie left this for you…

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Wayne Lysobey

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Wayne Lysobey

He poured himself into it…

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Trisha Ricketts

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Trisha Ricketts

Jake was sixteen…

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Sara Marberry

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Sara Marberry

Every pair of shoes…

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Ellen O'Keefe

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Ellen O'Keefe

These are the famous boogie shoes….

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Joyce Zeiss

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Joyce Zeiss

I grew up in Toledo, Ohio...

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Aaron B. Cohen

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Aaron B. Cohen

A little toy bus…

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Ina Chadwick

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Ina Chadwick

Howdy Doody was not my friend…

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Julie Stark

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Julie Stark

Now that you own the statue…

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Joseph M. Madda

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Joseph M. Madda

My late father-in-law…

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Lisa D’Angelo

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Lisa D’Angelo

When our 96-year-old mom…

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Lynn Shapiro

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Lynn Shapiro

These lilies became an accidental shrine…

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Nancy Hepner Goodman

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Nancy Hepner Goodman

My mother recorded a litany of our names…

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Jack Hertz

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Jack Hertz

I was at Forbes Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, on October 13, 1960...

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Fred Gants

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Fred Gants

To quote from a skit on Saturday Night Live:

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