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Yesterday I began my drive from Creswell, Oregon to Newport Beach, CA. I have traversed Freeway 5 to and from these cities many times. As…
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The fragrance of hyacinths with a touch of vinegar welcomes the visitor to the Haftseen, the seven S set up which is the harbinger of…
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Definition of sacrifice- to suffer loss of, give up, renounce, injure, or destroy especially for an ideal, belief, or end. Today, Memorial Day, is a…
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In April 2020, National Geographic sent their latest issue: "How We Lost the Planet / How We Saved the World," a "flip book" where there…
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There was no other way, no other path. It was as if written in stone: actress….I would be an actress. I’m not even sure if…
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Yesterday I began my drive from Creswell, Oregon to Newport Beach, CA. I have traversed Freeway 5 to and from these cities many times. As…
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In physics, time is defined as "the measure of a change in a physical quantity or a magnitude used to quantify the duration of events,"…
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The next time I saw my mother was in a department store, the Broadway, that used to be on Hollywood Boulevard when I was growing…
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