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The Grinch: How My Heart Grew From Grump to Grateful
I am the youngest of 4 kids and the only girl. Yes, everything you may be thinking is true. I wasn’t spoiled as in I got lots of material things. But I may have whined a bit and felt entitled to my way sometimes. I got my own room while the 3 boys were cramped in one small bedroom. I was perhaps resented and definitely teased a lot by my brothers. Teenage Linda was the only one left at home, with brothers that had gone off to be adults. I loved having my parents to myself. In my humble opinion, I was an easy teenager. I didn’t give my parents…
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Covid Infiltrated our Home: Our 2020 Coronavirus Story
“I’m getting a little tickle in my throat” Robert said on a Friday. Uh oh. In any normal year a sore throat, cough etc.. would be no cause for alarm. But as you may have heard, 2020 is not a normal year. It’s the year of quarantines, masks, hand sanitizer, toilet paper hoarding, and distance learning. It’s the year I can’t hang out with my 84 yr parents very often. It’s also an election year and a year of race riots and protests. 2020 will be one for the history books. All in all, it had not been an absolutely horrible year for our family. Robert was and always will…