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High School reunion, an Unexpected Opportunity

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When I was young, I had the impression that the world consisted of only my family, my neighbors, the people at school and those who inhabited my favorite make believe worlds such as Lucy & Ricky, Fred & Ethel, Donny Osmond and of course, the entire Brady Bunch Family.  As I grew older I became aware of the world gradually expanding.  When I was an older teenager, I particularly remember a day at the beach when I started a conversation with another as the salt water idly eddied around our ankles.  I remember that when she told me that she was from Menlo Park Terrace I was delighted to think that "all the way at the shore", I could run into somebody that lived near me.  We quickly established a rapport by conversing about all the things that we had in common such as Food Town, Merit, Menlo Park Mall and the White Birch.  As my world continued to expand and I finished high school and college and relocated to the Bridgewater area, I occasionally ran into people that were
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Dandelions, Roses & Patent Leather Shoes; Memories of Mary

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According to the research I've done on the subject of blogging, new bloggers should just be "themselves" and never attempt to mimic the style of another.  That makes this blog a very easy one to write as I believe my style is so scattered and random that nobody could mistake it for another.  It's very important to me though that the reader understand that in writing this post, my intention is not to shine a light on myself or to elicit empathy or regret about the circumstances of my life.  The goal of this blog is to illuminate and celebrate one of the great blessings God ever gave me; Mary Cecelia DiLeo Howard, a faithful friend who brought joy and light to my world. Though I am sad beyond words, I can only imagine the depth of the grief of her parents, her husband, her sons, her siblings, her nieces and nephews but my heart particularly aches for her girls.   Lately memories of years gone by have been triggered by current events and when I sit down to write I a
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June Part II, Birthday Posting Might Just Become my Full Time Job, (But I Committed.....)

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I can't fix the formatting for June 11, 12 and 13, I really tried I beg the pardon of those who have read my last blog post regarding birthdays and Facebook because the next two paragraphs you read are more than just eerily similar to paragraphs to what you have read before.  They are more like cut and paste. (Cut and pasted words are in red in case you want to skip ahead) Alas, however, you are not experiencing some sort of freaky deja vu, I am repeating them for the sake of those who haven't read the last one so that they can be up to speed. Facebook reminds me daily that friends are celebrating birthdays and I am prompted to send a greeting. Having been the recipient of hundreds of thoughtful and encouraging birthday posts throughout the years, I appreciate how affirming a birthday on Facebook can be. But it's really, really hard to be faithful in wishing all of my Facebook friends a meaningful not generic birthday greeting, though I really want to and to exe
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