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You never stop missing your parents

It’s another March 1st and it’s another of my mother’s birthdays. It’s the fourteenth one of these that she’s missed. Damn cigarettes. Damn cancer. To call my mother a character would be understating things. I have so many stories about her that I can write these things for months. My mother didn’t start to drive... Read more »

By Howard Moore,
March 1, 2017 at 1:11 pm • 

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  Every five years or so I decide to update this section. I can't believe I've been doing this for close to ten years. The last time I did this I was close to sixty years old. Now I'm just a few months away from the big 7-ZERO. Scary AF!!! I'm pretty sure I won't be doing an update when I hit 80, but you never know. But until then, lets just be grateful.

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