Tag: family
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Tapestry
I went to a specialized school. My MSW said last week that it was an open concept school of the sixties and seventies. One of the most prominent in the country. I was hurt in 1967 very badly. I had the best plastic surgeon in the state and they had a Social Worker for me.…
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.0001
My mother had told me that I had an IQ higher than anyone else in our family. That it was in the .0001 of the top 1% taken, starting around ’65 because my father and sister’s IQs were so high. My father had scored the highest Raw Score on certain tests in the military. The…
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Church Outreach
I lived in an upper scale neighborhood. I never had lunch money. No big deal. There was nothing to fix. Every once in a while, I would get a new lunch pail box as a big thing but no follow through. Vic at school arranged for us to do dishes for lunch. I met him…
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Kit Carson
In third grade they forgot to teach me cursive – in second grade. Or perhaps I was still recovering. I am a Genius and I spoke French and in third grade the school forgot cursive. My neighbor brought the neighborhood kids to see the Battle of Midway in ’73. His wife brought just me to…
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Through the Mirror Sideways
Child, does your mother know you are out here? Who gave you the right to ask me that? Your mother. Come here. I don’t know. I am busy. Myself is trying to get his memories back and I keep moving them. Sometimes they are hidden in French. Other times…he’s not as smart as me. Who…
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If No One Claims Me I’m Yours
I put together my past. I won’t post it here. It has been three years of recovery. But I did considerable research into the past on my father’s companies and on the people around us and I know what we did. I wish I could discuss it here but there are reasons for me to…
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