Posts Tagged ‘Illinois’
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After Cathy and I moved into our home almost nine years ago, I couldn’t find my junior high school yearbooks. I’d saved them since the late 1960s, and suddenly they were gone. I’d thought of them often after they’d disappeared, puzzled over where they might be. I assumed they must have been lost in the…
Read MoreThe Lonely Voice
It’s one of many Saturday nights in 1970 when I’m fifteen years old. I live in the very small town of Sumner, Illinois, with a population of around a thousand. We have no teen center. I don’t belong to a church that sponsors youth activities, and the Friday night sock hop after the basketball game…
Read MoreBerryville, Illinois: I was Listening to Your Lessons on Love
When I was a child, my Thanksgivings were always spent with my mother’s side of my family. We gathered at my grandmother’s house in the crossroads village of Berryville, Illinois, catty-corner from the general store that my grandparents had run once upon a time. My grandmother’s house is now gone as is the store and…
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