Tag: memoir
member name: Sarah A. (I KANZ B UH RITUR!!!!) , YEZ!!
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May 10, 2009 06:28 PM EDT --
My Mother – Portrait of a Complicated Lady: Part One
My mother was born Susan Patricia Chanler in London, 1921. To understand her, you have to put her in context.
Her father Lewis . . .
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April 19, 2009 01:53 PM EDT --
Improvisational Theater, Or, Where I Got Off The Boat
When I was 17 I ran away and joined the circus. OK, it was the student body of the University of California, Berkeley, but in 1968 there . . .
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May 04, 2009 12:30 PM EDT --
Two Weddings and a Restraining Order
It was a marriage made in ... adolescence... I started hanging out with Gary when he was 17 and I was 18. I had returned from Berkeley for the summer . . .
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February 15, 2009 09:17 AM EST --
My mother had been ill for a long time. She was dying, but very slowly.
Years passed. We all glided along, me raising my child, my brothers Will and Bob doing their highly important . . .
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October 14, 2009 07:46 PM EDT --
All this rain has reminded me of my father. He was a man with his own sense of humor, to say the least. He also had a fundamental understanding that if God wanted him to hire help, He wouldn’t . . .
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September 25, 2009 05:08 PM EDT --
The Thumb
It was 1970 and the Vietnam war was in full swing, fueled by the lives of young men as it lumbered slowly toward nothing.
My Ex, XIII, was 18 years old. He’d dropped out . . .
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