Tag: love
member name: Carol Roach
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July 07, 2006 03:34 PM EDT --
As one can imagine, growing up poor meant living in places that were not
for the weak or tender-hearted. You had to be tough to grow up in a slum. Life was hard and you had to roll with the punches. My . . .
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June 29, 2006 11:39 PM EDT --
Little Princess
Anne was 17 years old and a naive farm girl living in the big city. Though
she came to nurse an aging aunt back to health, she found herself living alone, with no friends and no family . . .
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July 24, 2006 05:02 PM EDT --
Being a single parent most of my son's life, I was the most important thing
in his life as he was in mine. There is a closeness that develops between a
single parent and child that is different from . . .
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December 22, 2008 12:07 AM EST --
The hanging gardens of Babylon, is also known as the hanging gardens of Simiramis and is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. I have written that the Taj Mahal was a testament of one ruler’s . . .
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July 07, 2006 05:06 PM EDT --
Growing up poor was not easy by any stretch of the imagination, but to a
young child, none of these things really mattered. What I wanted and what I needed was love and that was just what I got from Ma . . .
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July 11, 2006 08:13 PM EDT --
Laddie, my first real friend, was a collie, and during my childhood I vowed
that I would get myself another one someday, some how, some way. I didn't really have a plan as to how that would happen. . . .
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July 25, 2006 09:54 PM EDT --
In 1980, my three year old and I moved into a low-cost apartment. I was
now divorced and my ex-husband had returned to his country. There are no extradition treaties between Barbados and Canada. As a result, . . .
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July 18, 2006 08:29 PM EDT --
My marriage failed early on. I was a young mother of a three year old and
my husband became psychotic. Although I tried everything I could for him,
our marriage ended in divorce. My husband went back to . . .
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July 20, 2006 04:54 PM EDT --
She came right up to me out of nowhere: this little black girl with the biggest, brightest smile I had ever seen. "Hi my name is Dee, glad to meet you, and always remember God loves you." This . . .
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August 05, 2006 05:12 PM EDT --
He was the terror of the neighbourhood this little black boy who was no more than seven or eight years old from what I could tell. I was always afraid of him even though I was much older. Most of the . . .
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February 04, 2009 05:14 AM EST --
We have all come to know cupid as part of Valentines Day. Cupid is the cute little baby with the chubby belly that sends that arrow right through your heart. Cupid is responsible for making you fall . . .
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July 09, 2006 02:48 PM EDT --
Johnny and Jackie, the twins next door, were never as lucky as I was. Their parents were also poor and no one cared what Christmas gifts they would get. There never was a big Christmas dinner, and especially . . .
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August 19, 2006 03:28 PM EDT --
Love is like a rainbow,
After every tear we shed.
Love is like the laughter,
Turning cheeks a rosy red.
Love is in the words, "I'm sorry,"
After hateful ones are said.
Love . . .
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July 09, 2006 02:10 PM EDT --
Christmas time is one of my favourite childhood memories. Though we
were poor, you would never know it from the abundance of gifts that
surrounded our tree. Even though I was raised alone by my grandmother, . . .
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December 20, 2008 01:46 PM EST --
Previously published in Ciao
Throughout time there have been great love stories where humans including mighty rulers have gone to great feats for the women they loved. We all know that the . . .
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September 02, 2006 04:24 AM EDT --
written May 31, 2005
I just had a very bad exchange with an email correspondent. The details are not important; suffice to say I felt I was being a friend to this person. I was really trying to accommodate . . .
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August 17, 2006 07:47 PM EDT --
After a few years of chasing boys and rainbows, I met him or at least I saw him again when I was 16. The first time I laid eyes on him I was 14, I won't tell you his age. He dismissed me. I was a child. . . .
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February 14, 2007 06:39 PM EST --
I recently wrote about the paper valentine cutouts we all received as children in elementary school. In my day, many children were disappointed because only the popular students benefited from . . .
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September 16, 2006 04:12 AM EDT --
I remember his green eyes, beautiful aquiline nose, white skin, and big bushy afro. He was the handsomest man I had ever met. At 19-years-old, he still kept his boy-like appearance. When you looked into . . .
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September 23, 2006 04:07 AM EDT --
Menarche is the first occurrence of menstruation at the onset of puberty. There are many statistics giving different age ranges for this, but basically it can happen between the ages of 8 and 16. I remember . . .
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