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TJs Things

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milestones

  • My husband brought in the mail this evening. It was the usual mix of junk mail, bills and catalogs. He handed me one heavy white envelope. He said it was from one of my friends. I think I squealed or something and started jumping up and down when I saw my old roommate’s name on Read more

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  • Gerald Ford (1913-2006)

    He was the only president not elected to national office by the people of the united states (well technically they are all elected by the electoral college, but that’s another civics lesson for another time). Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. in Omaha Nebraska. His parents separated before he was born. Read more

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  • James Brown (1933-2006)

    Say it Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud), Santa Claus (Come Straight to the Ghetto), Please, Please, Please. Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag, A Man’s World, the list goes on and on and on. James Joseph Brown Jr. (who later removed the Jr. designation from his name) was born in South Carolina during the Read more

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  • Next.

    “He is no more.” That’s how my husband told me that his father had died. The doctors did all they could to make him comfortable and he was talking and coherent until the end, but he asked them to sit him up and then he died. I feel really bad for my mother in law. Read more

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