Tag: memories
member name: Amy B.
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April 04, 2007 05:17 PM EDT --
Back in 2002 I went out to Denver to visit my grandmother for her 104th birthday. Yes, I typed that right – she was over one hundred years old and still pretty spry and spunky. After my plane landed . . .
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April 11, 2007 09:31 PM EDT --
We called my grandmother "Toots" (pronounced like the first part of "Tootsie Roll") ever since my oldest brother was learning how to talk. The story is that every time my grandmother . . .
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November 17, 2007 10:50 AM EST --
The holidays are right around the corner and it's the one time of the year that I don't mind being in the kitchen, making some of the items that my grandmother and mother made and carrying on . . .
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April 28, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
Mother's Day is fast approaching and I'm finding the holiday to be just as bittersweet as last year. It's been one year since we buried my mother and I can't help but miss her amidst . . .
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May 28, 2007 09:17 AM EDT --
My ancestors are long-time residents of the Detroit area. In fact, one of my ancestors came to Detroit with Cadillac when it was first settled in 1701. Many of the descendants of the original Detroit . . .
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March 12, 2007 10:03 AM EDT --
My father was always proud of being a Marine and serving in the South Pacific during WWII. One year my mother got him a really nice gold Marine Corps watch that he wore every day. When Dad died a few years . . .
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January 25, 2007 12:17 PM EST --
I know a lot more about my mother's family and it's history than I do about my father's side of the family. My paternal grandparents were both gone by the time I was eight, so I don't have . . .
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January 25, 2007 09:02 PM EST --
I suspect that very few people can still drive by and see the home that their great-great grandparents built. And fewer still can see their family homestead converted into a museum so that . . .
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May 03, 2007 08:34 AM EDT --
In the world of texting, BFF stands for "Best Friend Forever". When I was in junior high I met the girl who I long considered to be my BFF. We were both shy and were drawn together in a . . .
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February 18, 2007 02:18 PM EST --
My grandmother was quite a character and lived until she was 104 years old. She grew up on a farm in what is now a suburb of Detroit and wore long dresses and used a horse-and-buggy to get to town. She . . .
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