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my life in cartoons – part two
This is the second half of my long, detailed autobiography that i did for a mail art project. If you can’t read it, click on the picture until you get a larger view.
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A really good book
The other day on the light rail, I sat across from this gentleman. The novel in his hands was fraying. Most of the front cover was gone, the inside front page was in tatters. He was so intent on what he was reading, that when I snapped a picture of him with my trusty phone/digital…
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Laurie Rose
Once there was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, she was very very good. No wait, that’s not the story. When I was just newly married, my husband raved about a little niece of his. She was adorable. She was the fourth…
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My Grandfather, Tom Torchia
Every kid deserves at least one grandparent that dished out unconditional love. Amidst all the squalor of my parents’ divorce, he was the one person who was like the calm in the center of the storm. My grandfather always had a lap for us kids, always had a smile. My grandfather left Italy right before…
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Maddalena
What would possess a five foot, shy sixteen year old girl who speaks no English to get on a boat and go to the USA in 1914? She wasn’t a political refugee and was not fleeing a war zone. She was escaping a controlling mother! Her family lived comfortably in a small town, her father;…