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My Only Daughter

My Only Daughter In the spring of Abbey’s first grade year, we were in the middle of the worst crisis of our lives. I wrote a bit about this in

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From Heartache to Hope

I stood there looking at the mounds of dresses in my cart. Dresses piled up high in every color: blue, orange, purple, white, green, black, and every shade of pink.

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“Let Us Love One Another”

I began, “Knock-knock”  She asked with a little prompting, “ Who’s There?” I replied, “Lettuce”. Then prepared to follow up with a funny punch line. But instead of asking the

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One Day at a Time

Just like anyone else who was alive that day, I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when the events of that day unfolded. I was

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I Can’t Wait

“I can’t wait!” she said to me one day, when turning seventeen. Lots of candles on the cake this year, and Yay they’re all for me!   Not an unusual

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Am I Being Observant

This weekend we took a long Sunday afternoon drive to run an errand miles from where we live and to take in the sights along the way. Eric and I,

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