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Years ago a little four year old boy taught me a life lesson that’s stayed with me for a long long time, that’s how valuable it’s been to me. It was one of the kindest reprimands I’ve ever received and looking back now I’m sure he wouldn’t even remember it if I reminded him.
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Have you ever made daisy chains? You make them by nipping daisies off near the base of their stem, use your thumb nail to pinch a deep groove through the stem then thread another daisy through it. It was a time consuming but fulfilling pastime.
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There are some rather ‘unforgiveable’ social sins, like using your butter knife to spread butter on your toast and also to use it to take up and spread jam with that fall into the category of gross. Well, at my house they do.
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My uncle was a drunk. It’s probably not something family members would probably admit about him, but he was. Denial is subversive to say the least. He was a simple man, leading a fairly simple life.
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