This project has now finished and will be posted in the next few weeks. If you have participated, thanks so much and I really look forward to sharing it with you.
Please consider ordering the book here! This experience of reading and sharing stories has been such an amazing experience. I find many more memories from my childhood sparked by reading other people's stories. Trying to find a way to share this experience with others has resulted in compiling the stories into book form. Naturally, names and dates of a sensitive matter will be changed but other than that they will be unaltered.
The stories span quite the range:
- when i was 7, i walked out to my swing set to find a snake curled up under my swing. i was scared and couldn't swing. i asked my uncle (who was watching me) to do something about it but he was scared too. so my uncle played barbies with me. it was a good day.
- when i was seven years old i calmed my hysterical aunt in a carl's jr parking lot while my sister was being born and my uncle was just arrested.
- my grandmother lived up the hill from a candy store. one day i came outside to find my older sister and my cousin sitting in grandma's gravel driveway, eating the biggest sweet tarts i had ever seen - they were palm sized. and they wouldn't share. i asked where they got them and they told me they had found them growing in the gravel. one by one i must've moved every rock in that driveway, ending up with bloody fingertips before they fessed up. i told my own kids that story nearly ten years ago, and they still hold it over my sister's head.
- i missed the olympics that year. the soviet union boycotted the games and there was no official coverage of the event.
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Below is Section 4A
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Below is Section 4G
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Below is Section 4i and 4J
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Below is Section 3A
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Below is Section 3D
Below is Section 3E
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Below is Section 3i
Below is Section 3J
Below is Section 3K
Below is Section 3L
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Below is Section 9D
Below is Section 9E
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Below is Section 9H
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Below is Section 9J
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Below is Section 6D
Below is Section 6E
Below is Section 6F
Below is Section 6G
Below is Section 6H
Below is Section 6I
Below is Section 6J
Below is Section 6K
Below is Section 6L
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Below is Section 10K
Below is Section 10J
Below is Section 10i
Below is Section 10H
Below is Section 10G
Below is Section 10F
Below is Section 10E
Below is Section 10D
Below is Section 10C
Below is Section 10B
Below is Section 2L
Below is Section 2K
Below is Section 2J
Below is Section 2I
Below is Section 2H
Below is Section 2G
Below is Section 2F
Below is Section 2E
Below is Section 2D
Below is Section 2C
Below is Section 2B
Below is Section 2A
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Where it started.
