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1. about 17 hours ago on FoxTrot

   In 2010, Taylor Swift released “Speak Now”. My husband & I preordered it for our Swiftie-daughter’s 8th birthday. Just days before her birthday my husband ended up in the hospital with a 35% chance of survival (thankfully he beat the odds). Her birthday was celebrated in my husband’s ICU room, with the lovely nurses “decorating” his room and bringing her & her little sister ice pops. She was so happy to get the CD, but that first night she “loaned” it to my husband to listen to in his room. The next day we brought the CD home and put it in the bedroom CD player, putting it on loop to have playing while we slept (the girls wanted to sleep with me while Daddy was in the hospital) every night until he came home. Not only did I never get sick of it, but to this day it’s my favorite TS album; it’s my daughter’s 3rd (after “1989” and “The Tortured Poets Department”.

2. 1 day ago on Baby Blues

   When I was a baby my grandfather – my mother’s father – lived with us. He had cancer. He wanted more than anything to hear me say “Mama” before he died. One day he was watching me while my mom took the older kids swimming at my grandmother’s house. He called: “Therese…come home quick!” I wasn’t the healthiest baby so Mom thought something was wrong. She bundled the kids & raced home. He met her at the door with a brilliant smile: “SHE SAID ‘MAMA’!” I was sitting on the floor pointing up at HIM, saying, “Mama!” (He died one week before my first birthday. It was understood in the family that I was his favorite grandchild.)

3. 1 day ago on FoxTrot Classics

   My husband is a loud snorer. When we first got married it bothered me…until I read a letter on Dear Abby. A woman wrote saying that for years her husband’s snoring bothered her…until he died. “Now” she would give anything for the chance to hear it again. Suddenly my husband’s snoring wasn’t that bad. We’ve been married for 38 years and I sleep better hearing it (which I only do 3 nights a week as he’s a 3rd-shifter).

4. 3 days ago on Baby Blues

   I don’t believe in the modern conceit of buying ripped jeans. However, one time my younger daughter ripped a knee of her capris jeans. Someone thought that it was bought that way & complimented her…so I left it.

5. 3 days ago on FoxTrot Classics

   I wish I had thought of that, but 1) we didn’t have an answering machine when I was a teen; 2) the results would have been the same; 3) I shudder to think what kind of messages WOULD have been left (I was a huge bully-target).

6. 3 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   For years every time my family would get together there would be a picture of my dad, my brother, his son, and HIS son. It was always sweet. Sadly, Dad died in 2020. As for me, I only have 1 picture of me with my mom & my daughters. My grandmothers both died long before my girls were born, and my mom died in 2018.

7. 3 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   No offense taken. I just didn’t get the “snerk”.

8. 4 days ago on Rose is Rose

   I would sometimes go to work with my dad on Saturday mornings. I learned how to drive a fork lift at a young age. The boss would “pay” me with whatever I wanted from the vending machines.

9. 4 days ago on For Better or For Worse

   Believe me, you don’t want your grandmother living with you. When I was a teenager we had BOTH grandmothers living with us. They didn’t like each other and I was their rope in their attention tug-of-war. What’s worse is that I had to share my room with one of them.

10. 4 days ago on For Better or For Worse

    I don’t get it.