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The year was 1964. The place was Chicago. A man I worked with had acquired a couple of all-leather, NFL regulation, 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed footballs and was selling them at a real good price. My...
日期：2016-05-16
The year was 1964. The place was Chicago. A man I worked with had acquired a couple of all-leather, NFL regulation, 1963 Chicago Bears-inscribed footballs and was selling them at a real good price. My...
日期：2016-05-16
One of the requirements of every commencement speaker is that they offer some advice. Well, get ready, here it comes.Soon you will be leaving the company of those who think they have all the answers -...
日期：2016-05-16
My husband brought our three young children down the long hall of the maternity ward, pausing to let them wave in each doorway at the new mothers cuddling bundles. At my room, he beckoned them in and ...
日期：2016-05-16
Grandfathers and 3-year-old boys are natural buddies. On this particular day in May, the grandfather was pleased to have the company of his best little pal when planting the vegetable garden. For a wh...
日期：2016-05-16
You won't forget to bring the potato masher, will you? I said to my mother on the phone after telling her I had to have a mastectomy. Even at 82, and 3000 miles away on the long distance line, she kne...
日期：2016-05-13
Dear Editors of Chicken Soup,I have been gobbling up your stories for years. I own all your books (and the game, too). I love what each story has to offer in its meaning and new perspective on life. I...
日期：2016-05-13
Several years ago, a physician from southern France contacted me. His granddaughter had taken ill with a disease that baffled the physicians there. He called after reading several of my articles on di...
日期：2016-05-13
After working many years in a large metropolitan hospital, with state of the art conveniences, my work as PM charge nurse in a small local convalescent hospital yielded many frustrations. Occasionally...
日期：2016-05-13
You asked me to sing to you. I complained, Aw, Mom, I'll wake people up. Once again, I let my ever-present stage fright come before you. Looking back, it's hard to believe I was so selfish. But you pe...
日期：2016-05-13
Star athletes have played an important part in the lives of young children as far back as history remembers sports and its heroes. Every youngster has had at least one hero that he worshipped above al...
日期：2016-05-13
The year I moved to Alaska, I lived with my husband's family while he stayed in Montana and worked. I had never been around a huge family before, and he was the oldest of ten children, most of them ma...
日期：2016-05-13
My friend Peggy and I had both been to Paris before, but always as chaperones for youth groups or part of adult groups, seeing all the usual tourist sites and hearing the same tour guide recitations. ...
日期：2016-05-13
As the soot and dirt and ash rained down,We became one color.As we carried each other down the stairs of the burning buildingWe became one class.As we lit candles of waiting and hope,We became one gen...
日期：2016-05-13
September 10, 2001, was our eighth wedding anniversary. My husband, Alan, was leaving the next day for a week back in California to try his last Clean Water Act case. He'd decided to give up a thrivin...
日期：2016-05-13
