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At four years of age, Jeffrey was holding to his mother's coat tails while she roamed the streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. Annie was attempting to escape the expectations of society and the responsibilities of motherhood. Jeffrey only wanted the love of his mother and followed her everywhere in the streets. He had to forage for food and shelter while Annie was searching for the means to purchase her next "fix." Jeffrey would witness the stark reality of substance dependency without understanding the effects until his teen years. Annie was traveling south of the border into Mexico, when on a whim, she abandoned her five year old boy with some strangers on a bus ...

"Giant Hermit of the Back Woods" some folks called old Bill Smith. In days gone by, New York's Adirondack Mountains were home to many 'wild-looking characters', but few compared to Bill Smith! He was 6'4" tall and his grizzled beard trailed on the ground when he didn't have it tied up. His life story reads like a tall tale, but this mountain man was the real deal! This is the true story of the 'Bearded Wonder of the Adirondacks'!

If you had to write a fantastic story about a fascinating character who has superhero powers, which details would you include? The idea of this project started a few years ago on Facebook when people would engage in a 30 Days of Thanks project starting in November and carrying on thru Thanksgiving. They’d post something once per day that they were thankful for, like their family or their friends or their job or even their car. Normally, they'd quit after a couple days. Obviously, I didn't. One of my ideas was “30 Days of Dad”; an entire month filled with stories about my father, a former Navy SEAL in Vietnam who raised his family in Texas in peace, far from the riverbanks of the s ...

Family History of Loretta (Amann) Wagner Donald J. Wagner George F. Wagner Village of Neudorf

At the home of great aunt, Helen Kendall Cooke, a portrait hangs on a bedroom wall. It is large and has a presence that fills the room. My aunt laughed when she introduced me to the portrait telling me that she would hang a towel over it when her grandchild stayed in the house because he was frightened by it. “This, she said, is your great, great, great grandfather, Stephen Davies.” I should admit that I did have a moment when I sympathized with her grandson. There is no unkindness in the portrait’s face; it must be the seriousness of purpose in his eyes. There was a story in that face, of that I was certain, a story that gave it reason to hang in a home after more than ...

This book provides biographies of 27 great female jugglers of the past and includes almost 200 photos. Written by well-known juggling historian David Cain.

While the subtitle says "good friends" and most of the stories revolve around a 1967 candy apple red GTO, it is also about the authors best friends both then and now. Along with other close friends and family, the exploits and antics of these guys in particular (plus a few others)will keep the reader on an emotional roller-coaster.

These are Kyra's memories of David Archuleta from the first time she saw him on TV to meeting him in person.