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Great-Aunt … great aunt.

Posted on January 28, 2012April 27, 2024 by Phyllis Diller Stewart
Aunt Ada reading to me and my sister Linda

If you could have one person back, just for awhile, to let them know how much you appreciated them, who would it be?

I’d love to talk to my Great-Aunt Ada, and today I feel an almost physical need to hold her smooth, soft hand in mine while telling her how much I loved her.

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  • A BAG OF RANDOM SKILLS
  • I’m a Small Cog On a Big Wheel
  • A Breakfast Adventure
  • A FEW LITTLE SMILES
  • Putting Up
  • OH CANADA! OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAND.
  • A Super Awesome Day — and it’s only 10:30 a.m.
  • Reaching the Front
  • Come On An Adventure With Me!
  • Once You’ve Learned How …
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  • Boxing Day Fun
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  • Sing a Song of Sixpence.
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  • Holding Hands Across the King-size Bed.
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  • How To Break a Fly Swatter
  • To market, to market …
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  • Caution: Tunnel ahead.
  • Caution: Tunnel ahead.
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  • I’m just a bit spoiled.
  • Wasp-cube.
  • What would it be like?
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  • Something a little different.
  • All’s well that ends well. I guess.
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  • The lane I love.
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