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Front Porch Mentality - Pauli Manis
Do our lives end as they began? Is our existence one great big circle? No beginning...... No end. As I sit on Jil's front porch I'm...
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May 9, 20209 min read
Fa Qin Road, Guangzhou, China - Dr. Chi C. Mao
I was born in Canton, China. Guangzhou is the real name, the Chinese name for Canton. Actually, I wasn’t born in Canton, I was born in a...
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May 9, 202015 min read
Growing Up in Alma, WI - Cynthia Martin
I grew up in Alma, Wisconsin, about an hour and a half south of Minneapolis/St Paul via Highway 35, (The Great River Road), at Lock and...
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Apr 30, 202011 min read
University Park, Dallas, TX - Kathy Biehl
My childhood home didn’t really come into being until I was nine. Before then my family scurried through more residences than I can...
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Apr 28, 20208 min read
145 Columbia Ave., Elyria, OH - Mary Lee Eneberg
My first 12 years were lived in a magically warm home at 145 Columbia Ave. in the Mayberry-like town of Elyria, Ohio, just west of...
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Apr 24, 20206 min read
691 Jefferson St., Galesburg, IL - Kate A. Howell
In 1956 my parents bought their first home at 691 Jefferson Street in Galesburg, Illinois. Previously they lived in a cramped apartment...
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Apr 24, 20204 min read
145 Chatham Avenue, Buffalo, New York - Ann Graham
The home I lived in from age 10 through high school was in Buffalo, New York. Once I left for college, I didn’t return to live there for...
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Apr 20, 20206 min read
1712 N. Washtenaw, Chicago - Victoria Ann Granacki
When I was a very young child, I lived in an old brick, Chicago six-flat apartment building overflowing with my father’s Polish Catholic...
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Apr 19, 20206 min read
The Wabash - Lissa Prater
I’m 67 years old and have lived in the same house for a total of 48 years. My parents divorced when I was 5 so my mother, brother and I...
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Apr 18, 202014 min read
1212 E. Texas Ave., Baytown, TX - Kim Crabb
I think the house that I’m most interested in talking about is my aunt and uncle’s house. My mother died, and I got moved over to an aunt...
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Apr 17, 20206 min read
Memories of 12 Demeter Drive - Mark Pascale
My father was a WW II veteran who attended college on the GI Bill and was able to buy our family’s first house using Veterans Benefits in...
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Apr 17, 202011 min read
4100 Ranier Ct. - Laurie McDonald
Back in the boom times of the early 1950s, middle-class Texans sometimes designed and built their homes in collaboration with an...
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My childhood home story by Kathy Biehl
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