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Jeanette and I spent a lot of time getting to know each other after our first trip to Virginia. We probably should have purchased stock in the airlines. We even met in Denver for her following birthday where we had a beautiful dinner together at The Fort, a historic, a full scale replica of an…
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In April, 2009, LT married Diana, a girl he knew from school and the younger sister of one of his baseball teammates. Pam and I had encouraged him to take her out when they were teenagers, to no avail. We were pleased that years later, they finally got together and married. While that was going…
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Jeanette and Pam soon found themselves living with Sugarloaf and family again. Jeanette and Sugarloaf were working at a truck stop together while CB was still working as a printer for the Washington Post, living in the DC area during the week and commuting home on the weekends. One Saturday morning, while bouncing Pam on…
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Whenever Ohmer started drinking, Granny made the girls sleep with their clothes on and shoes next to the bed in case they had to get up in the middle of the night and run out of the house during a drunken rage. Well liked by everyone outside of the family, no one had any idea…
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Jeanette confirmed that she and her dad had performed the swab test on each other. I explained the possibility of cross-contamination and how it could affect the results. Compounding the problem, she didn’t identify the second swab as being that of her third cousin, making it clear that she now had to call the lab…
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Boy! Did this guy have the wrong number, or what? This is a joke, right? Oddly enough, all those earlier premonitions never even entered my mind. I was curious however, as to how he thought I could possibly be the guy he was looking for. He told me that he knew I was born in…
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My career at Mare Island Naval Shipyard spanned 18 years, first hiring on as a Machine Tool Opetator and later, promoted to Journeyman Machinist. Sometime afterwards, I was invited to join the nuclear program, manufacturing parts for nuclear reactors on the submarines being overhauled on the shipyard because I still wasn’t smart enough to be…
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A machinist on swing shift with a reputation for not cleaning up his work area at the end of his shift left it for me one too many times. Everyone on the graveyard and day shifts refused to follow him because they didn’t want to clean up after him. Everyone but me, which meant I…
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A few days after returning to Ohio, I learned that an arrest had been made. Upon inquiring at the bank, I was told that the bank would not return my money until there was a conviction. An actual date for his trial had not yet been set, so I obviously wasn’t going to get my…
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With very little tread remaining on the tires of my 1968 Toyota Corona, I drove over the Sierra Mountains and through Nevada throughout the night, determined to go as far as I could without sleeping. I think it was sometime during the following day, I suddenly found myself straining to see the road ahead. I…
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