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Jan.15.2013
On the first day of first grade in the mid-1950s, I looked at the blackboard, where Miss Wheeler (dark hair, red lipstick, high heels) had written the date in flowing feminine script. It registered in a decisive kind of way. It was an official beginning. Or ending. Up until then, I’d...
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Apr.23.2012
"Time rushes towards us with its hospital trayof infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparingus for its inevitably fatal operation." --Tennessee Williams
There were 13 refineries and a forest of oil rigs around Ploesti, 35 miles north northwest of Bucharest. This included the Romano...
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May.26.2011
Memorial Day is coming, and graves will be decorated. But the longer we are from World War II, the fewer Americans remember it. My childhood memories are already dim although at the time our lives revolved around that war. Our days were darkened by knowledge that the war was going on. My mother...
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