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Naomi’s Christmas: Restorative Aloneness And A Childhood Spent In Retail

For the Mommas

I went on buying trips to New York for the fancy ladies wear shop run by one aunt (they used to model the dresses at high end shops), learned the uniform business from another aunt, and was taught the basics of the Borscht Belt hospitality business by a great cousin. After dinner, Dad went off to Schul with his brothers.

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What a Wonderful Christmas!

Nicoles Nickels

My granddaughter laughed at her brother’s antics and then tried to consume the shiny wrapping paper. After too many presents from parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins and too many opening-present cookies, we took a break for some dinner.

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Sunday Reads: Free Kindle Books

For the Mommas

Having lost both her parents and grandparents, and with nowhere else to go, Layla is moving from Florida to a small town in North Carolina to live with the only family she has left: her estranged uncle and aunt. Her fiancé vanishes, leaving the battered and bloodied body of his brother in their London apartment.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

The Bargain Hunter Extraordinaire

My favorite part is spending time with my family: my parents, my two brothers, my grandparents, and my aunt and uncle. I look forwarded to it every year and I count down the days right after Halloween. We all go up to my parents house in Leominster, Mass to gather round the table, tell stories and eat delicious food.

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Double Trouble

The Bargain Hunter Extraordinaire

I celebrate it at my parents house with my two brothers, grandparents, aunt and uncle; then my family goes to my other aunt's house (this time on my mother's side) and have desert over there. So, tell me, what do you do to celebrate Thanksgiving? I love Thanksgiving!

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How to Talk Estate Plan and Last Wishes with Your Sibling?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I have an older brother who has no spouse, no children or other heirs. We are both in our sixties now and have been through the deaths of both Mom and Dad, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and more. My brother and I live in different cities and don’t communicate frequently or visit more than once a year.

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Bee Stung Butts, Freeze Dried Diapers and Other Hilarious Happenings of Poverty

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We had a coal stove at home, but my brother and my shared bedroom was just a few feet from the stove. Of course, later on I did get some really nice real dolls from my St Louis Aunts. One of their uncles played a joke on them and told them that they could ‘grow’ a pony. In the winter, it was fricken cold in there!

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