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Gender: Female
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Married
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Religion:
Christian/Protestant
Location:
Pennsylvania
United States
Pennsylvania
United States
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What if you slept, and what if in your sleep your dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand? Ah what then?~~~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What if you slept, and what if in your sleep your dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand? Ah what then?~~~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Always Adored
This is one of my favorite photos of my sister Anne. It was taken in the 1940's as you can see by her hairstyle which reminds me of a funny story. Anne had a boyfriend who would later become her husband. He would come to visit her and was very attentive to little old me at the age of four, so I fell in love with him and asked my sister if I could buy him for five cents, she agreed, but soon forgot our deal! So I got even! They were sitting on the couch and I crept behind the couch, reached up and hung on to Anne's long hair, when she complained about it, I told her she was not being fair, as she had sold him to me, yet there they were sitting together on the couch! They would not let me forget this, all my life they both would remind me from time to time about the "deal".
This is my sister Anne. In the first picture she was nineteen with her baby girl. In the second picture she is eighty-two years old. She had eight children. She lost one, at three months of age. She lost a daughter at the age of fourteen after many years of illness. She worked hard all her life, helping to support her family by working in a sewing factory. Instead of turning her pain into profanity, she turned it into poetry. The years she sat behind the sewing machine she was writing poetry in her mind and when she got home would write it down. She still writes, goes to workshops and poetry readings and has won awards in the different groups she belongs to. She truly is a survivor and an inspiration.
Here's a nice relaxing image of the beach at the time of the full moon. Sleep well.
I would like to visit a little grass shack like this and just relax away my cares and worries for a few days.
