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Nancy Roman

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Best Little Things

Mom and I were reminiscing this week. And at the same time we both exclaimed, “Playing Cards!” In our family, as soon as a baby had the self-control not to eat the cards, she was dealt a hand. We started with Go Fish and War and Slap Jack and Old Maid.  And we didn’t even need a …

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It’s Not Lost

Last night my husband was describing to me the best photograph he had ever taken – a monarch butterfly perched on a dewdrop on a flower.  He said that he loved that photo, because it was the most beautiful thing he had ever created. He lost track of that picture years ago, and he wondered …

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Don’t Call Me Shirley

My father named me.  My father named all four of his children.  I supposed my mother figured she’d love us so keenly regardless of our names, she let my father choose. My mother told me many times that she had wanted to name me Collette. But my father named me Nancy. There is an old …

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