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

For the Mommas

I learned so much about business, absorbed it through my pores, as I worked at Bloom’s Camera (later, Bloom’s Photo Supply and then just Bloom’s, Inc.), Bloom’s Photo Supply — The Great Wall. Even today, on the rare occasions when I’m in a store, I can’t help but notice such behaviors.

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06/15 Pinterest Pin(s) of the Week: Southern Front Porches

Nicoles Nickels

For me, it was one of my great aunts and uncles who lived at one end of a dirt road, down from my grandfather. The road connected the big white house of my great aunt and uncle, my grandfather’s house and the house of another great aunt and uncle that didn’t even have running water – they brought in water from a well in the yard!

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