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To this day, I will never understand what people could possibly be so interested in the game of football.  I tried to get interested and I tried to pay attention when I was watching the games with friends, but I never could get it.  Start.  Stop.  Start.  Stop.  Commercial break.  Start.  Stop.  I made the mistake of…

When my best friend’s wedding was delayed for no fault of her own, I knew they wouldn’t go through with it.  Less than twenty-four hours before the wedding ceremony was going to take place, a tornado had partially destroyed the church.  Instead of moving the ceremony to another, undamaged church or even the courthouse, Fran and Derek decided to put the wedding…

As I kid, I always loved going to fairs and it didn’t matter if it was a state fair, county fair, a fair in the mall parking lot.  I was obsessed with the food, the smells, the rides, everything about fairs had me hooked.  I begged my parents to take me whenever there was a fair nearby and sometimes they did, but more…

I never wanted to leave the park once we got there.  There were so many things and people to see, how could anyone ever get bored?  My brother always wanted to stay home and play video games with my dad, but I was always after going to the park with my mom.  My brother never…

My grandma always told me to ‘move forward in hope’ and I am just now figuring out what she means.  It only took me thirty years and her death to realize I could apply hope to my life.  That I needed to apply hope to my life.  Until my grandmother’s peaceful passing, I had always…

“He was my ex – he IS my ex.  But I definitely never said that about him and that didn’t ever happen.  Don’t you think I would have told you?  Have you ever even heard me talk about having a drug problem in my past?  Sam, I have only ever smoked marijuana twice in my life so.”  I thought…

I did know that Maryanne was having problems with her money, but the less she talked about it, the less I remembered to ask if everything was okay.  After a few weeks of her acting like everything was normal and continuing on with our regular eating out, I allowed myself to pretend like everything was fine.    Then came the excuses, the lies and…

My brother has always been obsessed with fire.  My parents finally learned they could never have any candles in the house, but I’m not sure what took them so long.  Michael always took them and burned them immediately in the house or would hide them so he could take them on his next ‘camping’ trip.  He was too obsessed with…

I never knew which doors in the house were going to be closed and why they were closed.  When I visited Kyle’s house, all the doors were open except for when someone was using the bathroom, changing clothes or sleeping.  Other than that, all the rooms were fair game.  Kyle’s house had such a different vibe than mine…

“Look at the stars,” I whispered to my sister.  “The stars are the gateway to another world that is never the same for anyone.  They are constantly moving and changing so they are different but the same at the same time.”  “That doesn’t make any sense,” she whispered back as she pulled her blanket to her chin.  …