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Part 2 Questions – Adulthood, Identity, The Present, Aging, Life Lessons, Legacies
Did you go to university or college? How did you decide what you wanted to study? Did you serve in the military? What did you do and what kind of experience was it? How did you decide what you wanted to do with your life? How do you feel about that choice? What was your…
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Part 1: Life Events – Childhood
What year were you born? On what date? What day of the week was it? Did your parents tell you anything about the day you were born? Where were you born? Why were you given the first (and middle) name(s) that you have? What’s your first, most vivid memory? I was born February 2nd,…
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1960 Memories and “Wild” Book Review
Dateline,: Topeka, Kansas, 1960. I was four. “Hey Daddy, Can I borrow your hammer?”, me, sheepish, with my partner-in-crime, a neighborhood friend just behind me. “Why do you need a hammer?”, sitting in the armchair, reading the paper. “We are going to break open rocks and look for gold!” Daddy retrieves the hammer, “Alright, when…
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19560205 Earliest Memory
I took in the whole room. Single bed, white linen, small table on the right side of bed. All viewed from about 4 feet off the floor. I wasn’t floating, I was being carried. Around the bed and to the table, on which was an ink pad and paper. My foot (left, I believe) was…
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2nd Childhood: An Essay
First published on my Taylor Patterns website, 2023-03-12 Essay: an analytic or interpretive literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal view (from the internet, definitions) “Old age is but a second childhood.” – Aristophanes What is it like to be a two-year old? We were all there. Yet now we…