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By: Diana Anhalt,

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Have you ever driven down a highway only to discover the road is closed to traffic? You end up taking a long, circuitous detour, afraid you’ll never get back on track.
Well, my life took a major detour when I was eight. My family left N...[Read More]

Vulnerable

By: Gloria Raskin,

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When did I cross the line from carefree, secure female to frightened insecure older woman? When did my enthusiasm for life take on an air of caution? When did I start watching myself walk, so I would not trip and fall? When did falling even come into the picture? W...[Read More]

No More Goody Two Shoes

By: Katherine Kasza,

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I was born in 1941, six months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor; I came into a world that would soon change a woman’s role forever.
Shortly after Dad was shipped off to Europe in 1942, my grandmother and her two youngest daughters mo...[Read More]

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