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Mar 3, 20215 min read
To Survive Again: A COVID-19 Story
| This is the 564th story of Our Life Logs® | I was born and raised in Las Vegas in the 1960s as an only child. I had a wonderful...
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Apr 8, 20208 min read
Galloping Through the Darkness
Isn’t it funny how we always stick a label on ourselves? From where we were born to what we do, somehow we always manage to tie a label...
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Feb 3, 202010 min read
The Memories We Pass On
Each time we visited the hospital with the fear that this would be the time, the moment life would leave my father...
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Jan 27, 20208 min read
No, Depression Can’t Have Me
Growing up in a very strict Christian family, I was expected to settle down and start a family. As I waited for Mr. Right...
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Jan 22, 20208 min read
I Am Not Weak
I’ve often wondered what drove me to have those wicked thoughts of wanting to commit suicide. Did I, in fact, have a mental illness?...
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Jan 17, 20209 min read
It’s the Baby
Even now I’m still stunned when I think of the way it all went so fantastically to hell in front of my eyes...
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Jan 9, 20208 min read
An Invisible War
You never think it’s going to be you until it is. And then it is...
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Jan 6, 20207 min read
When the Truth Came to Be
To me, my father, my so-called “hero,” single-handedly ruined my life and my family, all over a personal dispute...
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Dec 31, 20198 min read
Facing Down Demons
15 miles over in the town of Chilhowie. This is the place I consider my childhood home and where my story truly began...
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Dec 3, 20196 min read
Feathers of a Wing
They say that an angel’s wings are made up of the troubles of the souls they protect...
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Oct 23, 20197 min read
Even in the Darkest Moments
Growing up, I’ve noticed that many people, especially men, think they are entitled to a lot from a woman. They think they have the right...
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Sep 28, 201910 min read
I Came Back to Tell You to Fight
I was a very reclusive child and a runaway kid. There was already so much going on inside my head and I couldn’t handle the overload...
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Aug 27, 20197 min read
At 0,000 KM
As one of my favorite poems says, “Thursday’s child has far to go.” I was destined to go afar...
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Aug 12, 20197 min read
The Choice to Live
At the time, my father was unemployed and my mother was the teen-mom stereotype. They were already burdened with a daughter before me...
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Aug 10, 20198 min read
To Smile Is to Heal
My mom had five children to two different men, and I was the second. We were all girls and close in age...
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Jun 29, 20197 min read
Every Scar Is a Battle I’ve Won
My new parents were loving, good-hearted people who tried to adopt children with special needs who otherwise might not get the care they...
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Jun 22, 20197 min read
The Lonesome Battle
I had an eventful and adventure-filled childhood because I was a wild kid. I always found myself in trouble with just about everyone...
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Jun 14, 20196 min read
Lonely Is Not Forever
When I was young, my parents moved to Minnesota, to a town of 600 people. So, from the start, I was raised a bit separate from society...
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Jun 11, 20197 min read
When the Sky Is Gray
I had a good early childhood...However, happiness is easy to be interrupted. All that changed when I started secondary school...
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Jun 5, 20197 min read
As Crazy as It Was
I can’t remember a time my parents got along. I don’t remember laughing around a kitchen table or a single family-film night...
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