Gma book - For print - 20 stories, 11 font, subtitles (75 pages)

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Front: Daddy; Dot; Mama; Grandmother; Granddaddy; Aunt Ruby, Ed’s wife, with sonRaymond. Back: Uncle Dub; Uncle Ed; Aunt (“Cousin”) Billie; Aunt Nancy; Me; UncleBennie, Nancy’s husband; Uncle Lonnie. This was taken on the front steps of mygrandparents’ home in Whistler probably around 1941.18
Were you close toyour sibling as a child?How were you alike ordifferent?WRITTEN OCTOBER 12, 2019My sister Dot (Dorothy Jarrell Adams) was born on 3-3-33, the day the banksclosed during the Great Depression. I suppose her birth date is fitting sinceshe was always the sibling most likely to get into some kind of devilment!One of mama’s favorite stories to tell was when she told daddy she thought shemight be pregnant with my sister. I was just two at the time, and here we were inthe midst of the hardest economic times this country had ever known. My daddypromised my mother a new winter coat if she wasn’t pregnant. Oh, she so badlywanted that new coat. She didn’t get it, of course. But she loved telling that story foryears afterward.I suppose Dot and I were like most sisters growing up; we played together, but I wasmuch more of a rule follower and we also fought a lot. At some point growing up weran a string down the middle of our room – we always shared a room – between ourtwin beds to protect our own separate space. She didn’t keep her side very clean.One time when we were all at Big Mama’s for some family gathering, the kids wereall playing outside. Dot had an umbrella and the great idea to jump off the roof tosee if she could fly. To her surprise, she didn’t float down. Poor thing. I should havestopped her, but she wasn’t going to listen to me. She never did.19
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Page 8 and 9: Great-grandmother, Elizabeth Jarrel
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Page 12 and 13: Daddy at the drug store in his late
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Page 16 and 17: On my grandmother’s front stoop.
Page 20 and 21: My sister Dot out on a picnic with
Page 22 and 23: Dot and I during our teens years. T
Page 24 and 25: What’s a time where youhad a clos
Page 26 and 27: What is a funny memoryfrom your chi
Page 28 and 29: What’s a place that willalways be
Page 30 and 31: The house across the bay [top] whic
Page 32 and 33: Kim, Marianne and Jeanne32
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Page 36 and 37: Standing next to my cousin Billie,
Page 38 and 39: thumb a ride any time he wanted to
Page 40 and 41: John’s senior portrait. He was su
Page 42 and 43: John suited up for his Navy program
Page 44 and 45: Have you ever tried to‘fake it un
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Page 48 and 49: Do you believe in love atfirst sigh
Page 50 and 51: Dot and Pete on their wedding day50
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Page 54 and 55: One of our earliest family portrait
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Page 58 and 59: My first grandchild, Robin Elaine W
Page 60 and 61: Robin and Mandy having fun with the
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Page 64 and 65: And then the house filled up.John
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What’s the furthest you’veever
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Me, Jeanne and Peter somewhere in E
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I’m standing on a big painted map
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Me and the ladies from my bridge cl
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Photo taken in my backyard by my gr
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