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They say everyone has a double, a doppelganger, someone who’s their mirror image. What if you just met your double? What if you were a thirteen-year-old kid who’s gay and you just met your double?
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David and Carson meet in a most unusual way that results in Carson breaking his arm. Then these two guys discover something else very interesting about each other. But that's only the beginning...
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Starting your sophomore year in a new high school can be difficult; you don’t know anyone. It’s even more difficult if the school is small — all the kids there already know each other. But sometimes a near disaster can make a huge difference.
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When you're a teenager it's easy to be led astray. What's hard is getting out of a bad situation. Mature or distressing themes. |
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Cody Williams was living with his Granny in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck and devastated the city, disrupting his life. This is the story of how he escaped Katrina, how he was helped by a stranger, and how he found a new family, a new friend, and a new relationship. |
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Kevin has a problem. Actually, he has two problems. One he knows about; the other he doesn’t know about. Yet.
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Curt's life takes a turn that he never expected, and he forgot something that didn't seem important. Others have forgotten things that are important that will both help and hurt him. Mature or distressing themes. This story deals with abuse. |
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Sometimes the best gift you can give — and receive — is when you help a friend.
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You suddenly realize that you're in a hospital room looking at a patient... you need to find out why he's here. And then why you're here.
Mature or distressing themes dealing with violence and rape. |
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Justin is accused of doing something he says he didn't do. Will he be cleared, or will he be found guilty? |
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What is it like when those closest to you are not there any longer?
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Jason announces to his family that he’s gay. His sisters and his father tell him that it doesn’t make any difference, they love him no matter if he’s gay or straight or whatever. But what about his mother? Can she come to accept that her son is gay? |
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Tom Harris is injured in a high school football game and ends up in the hospital. Tanner Knox says he’ll make sure Tom receives reparation for what happened. |
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How many kids meet and become best friends that first day and remain best friends — and more — through the present day, ten years later?
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Some teachers can be tough. Some can be awful. Some can be absolutely the worst. Even the day before the Christmas and New Year's break. Let's see if Mike will be able to cope with one of those “absolutely the worst” teachers. |
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Will is a nice kid; you'd like him if you met him. But he has something unusual: his last name. Will is going to tell us what it's like being William Roger Christmas Jr. And there's something else a lot more different and a lot more important about Will than just having an unusual last name... |
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Here’s a Halloween story about two brothers who encounter some creepy clowns Halloween night. Mature or distressing themes. Included in the AwesomeDude 2016 Halloween Story Challenge |
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When you’re target shooting you need to be balanced. Is the same thing true about a friendship?
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Toby and Rafe thought they’d fixed the hole in Toby’s ceiling; but sometimes the best laid plans don’t work out all that great. This is a sequel to the story A Hole in My Ceiling
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Jeff's 14th birthday is on Halloween. As usual he will have a combination birthday and Halloween party. This year it's on Saturday, October 31st. Slam dunk. Surely nothing could go wrong. |
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A broken leg, a cup of coffee, a Danish, a cell phone, and a teddy bear. Seemingly unrelated, these items are interconnected for Owen and Donna in an unexpected manner. |
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Sometimes using the right words causes a problem. Caution: Explicit language and graphic descriptions. |
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Andy is a college freshman. For the first time in his life he's living in a dorm and he has a roommate. It's an exciting time. There's just one problem: Andy is gay and in the closet. How does he keep his roommate from finding out? |
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Cory is six years old and doesn't want to get a haircut, so he decides to do something about it. |
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Sometimes a birthday present goes too far; sometimes it doesn't go far enough. What kind of birthday present is Steve's sister planning to give him? |
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People say life is short. Sometimes maybe too short. Valentine’s Day is a time to remember and keep in touch. This story is loosely based on actual events. |
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Mike was attacked by two bullies. Trouble is, he knows who they are. |
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Sometimes a lot of effort seems daunting, but in the long run it'll probably turn out to be the best.
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It's the start of another school year, and for Kevin it's another school. But summer isn't over, and Kevin's planning to catch a few rays. This story is included in the Codey's World Summer Vacation and Back to School collection. |
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Wayne has Friday off because there’s a teachers meeting at Edison High. He hears a tentative knock at the front door and thinks it’s either United Parcel Service or the mailman. It isn’t either of those. |
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Memories from when we were children can influence our lives... and those of our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Sometimes it takes a while for the message to get through... |
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Curt and Greg have been best friends since grammar school and they're now in college. Christmas break is coming up, and they are planning to camp out on Mt. Diablo and hike one of their favorite trails. But Mother Nature has a surprise in store for them, a surprise that will change both of their lives. |
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Sometimes all you'll have at Christmas will be memories. Will they be enough? Mature or distressing themes. |
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Denise loves dark chocolate, and sometimes she saves the foil wrappers. Will she save Ted's? |
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Everyone needs a vacation — even a Minion of Death |
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Sometimes a series of seemingly unrelated events can be connected in ways you’d never expect, each depending on the prior event in order for everything to happen, to turn out perfectly, almost like it had been preplanned. |
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Kyle Parker returns home from school one afternoon and finds a strange boy sitting on his doorstep. He takes him into his home and quickly becomes intrigued by his mysterious visitor. Who is he? What does he want? Kyle is determined to get some answers, but is he ready to hear what the boy has to say? |
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Damon and Wayne share birth dates, and now they’re going to be fifteen.
But there’s something more important about this date. |
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You’ve graduated from high school (finally!) and now you’re going to college. Everything is different, including sharing a dorm room with a stranger.
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Sometimes mothers can be overprotective. What happens when that collides with what their children want? Mature or distressing themes and strong language. |
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Tommy learns that lying has consequences, especially lying to his mother. But has he really learned his lesson? |
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Darryl is watching a water polo match. Jason sits next to him and says water polo is the best sport for scoping out the really hot guys. Now Darryl is... confused. |
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Norm hated exchanging Halloween cards in elementary school. But one Halloween someone gave him a card with a special message, and then things got very… interesting. |
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Walt is stuck at home on Halloween answering the door every time a trick-or-treater rings the doorbell. When Carl arrives Walt thinks he's just another trick or treater. But maybe he isn't. |
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What was thought to be a Halloween prank |
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Paul is at the mall fighting the holiday crowds. But he isn’t there for holiday shopping; he has something more important to buy. Then something happens that becomes even more important, and might even put Paul in danger. |
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Brandon Heath has a problem. When his mother asks him what’s wrong, he says “I can’t tell you.” She isn’t about to take that for an answer. Can he keep his problem private, especially on Halloween? Included in the 2013 AwesomeDude Halloween Story Challenge |
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David is starting the ninth grade at College Park High. What he doesn’t understand is how he got stuck in a class with a teacher who has the worst reputation in the school. |
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A series of events gives Jay a reputation that he didn’t deserve. Will he be able to recover?
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It’s interesting how some people name their kid without really considering how the name they pick might be a problem for the kid. |
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I enjoy Japanese ghost stories and movies. Perhaps the most famous of these are the short stories in the collection Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn. I picked three of these ghost stories for my final project in a digital art class I took in the summer of 2008. |
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Li'l Ben is Mama Sue’s last cub; raising him is a challenge. Can she keep him safe? |
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It’s Tyler’s first day at Eastgate High School as a sophomore. One problem is that it’s April, and the school year will be over in a little more than a month. Another problem is this is the third high school for Tyler since his first day as a freshman. Will he be able to cope with yet another new bunch of students? |
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What happens when things start going wrong with a marriage? Arguments? Silence? Nightmares? |
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Darryl is in foster care. Sean thinks that he's being abused, but needs help to find out if that's true — and to find out what can be done about it. |
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Mike is a freshman at Edison High. He’s being pressured by his friends and his family to go to the Homecoming Dance. That’s fine except he will have to ask a girl to be his date. And Mike is gay. Part of the 2012 Coming Out Story Challenge on AwesomeDude |
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Sometimes your life can be improved by something as simple as one warm coat. |
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Life can become so much better when you find one best friend. This is a sequel to the story One Warm Coat on Codey’s World. |
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You know it takes a while for a guy to find a boyfriend. Then when you do, will he be
the one perfect boyfriend you’ve been looking for? This is a sequel to the story One Best Friend on Codey’s World. |
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Mike and Jeremy are discovering that some people already know that they are boyfriends. Jeremy never thought his life would become so complicated! This is a sequel to the story One Perfect Boyfriend on Codey’s World. |
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One night Mike and Jeremy see Mike’s new neighbor — and what they see amazes both of them. This is a sequel to the story One Complicated New Year. |
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Now Jeremy has a new neighbor a few houses down the street. He finds that he and Lyle have a lot in common. This is a sequel to the story One Sexy New Neighbor. |
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It’s almost always good to have a plan. But what do you do if something happens and you don’t have a plan? This is a sequel to the story One Cute New Neighbor. |
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Sometimes you think everything’s been taken care of. Sometimes you realize they haven’t been taken care of. Sometimes you don’t know which is which. This is a sequel to the story One Adversary. |
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When things finally start going right,
there’s always a nagging feeling that there’s something missing. This is a sequel to the story One Questionable Outcome. |
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A very strange phone call confuses Jeremy and leaves him wondering what’s going on. This is a sequel to the story One Satisfactory Outcome. |
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Everything seems to be improving for Jeremy. But is it real or just a silly fairytale? This is a sequel to the story One One Confusing Phone Call. |
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Jeremy's life is changing. It leaves him with a question: Are all of these changes good? This is a sequel to the story One Acceptable Outcome and the last story in the series. |
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Getting ready to host your first Thanksgiving dinner for your family can be complicated. For Ryan and Shawn it’s going to be even more complicated. Part of the Codey's World 2012 Holiday Story Collection |
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You find yourself in a different city, a different country. You find everything here is different, perhaps even a bit surrealistic. Yet, you fit right in. |
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Commuting lets us encounter a lot of different people. Some of them you'd rather not encounter. For example, a person who looks like they are homeless. |
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When Mark set out on his Thanksgiving week backpacking trip, little did he know that it would not turn out anything like what he expected. |
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Sometimes you're just a teen. Sometimes you act more like a goat. Find out why that happened to Joel. |
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Moving to a new town and going to a new high school is always tough; running into the school’s most notorious bully your first morning is especially unfortunate. |
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Sometimes unbuttoning a button turns out to be very hard.
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Medical Science does not have cures for everything. Sometimes the solution can be found in a tradition based on a different kind of medicine. |
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Dying isn't a game — or is it? Laura and Marti will find out the answer to that question on one particular night when things get a lot scarier than these two girls ever imagined. |
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Don is a computer science major at U.C. Berkeley and is working as a summer intern at Olintex Corporation. He's asked to help solve a strange problem with one of the network computers. Will he discover what's wrong, or could it be that there is a ghost in the machine? |
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She’s elderly and is insular, seldom venturing from her home. Her husband would like her to take walks with him, but she resists. Walking would be good for her, she knows. What would it be like if she took that first step?  |
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Leslie's first exposure to opera is when she hears Ash singing an aria. She becomes obsessed with the aria, and when she decides to find out which opera it's from the task turns out to be both simple and complicated... |
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Rubber Game: [noun] The tiebreaker in the last of a tied series of games; sometimes used in other types of contests and debates Mature theme and language. This story deals with a subject that can be a real issue for teens and their parents. |
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We all are, or should be, familiar with the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In our tale you will learn the story that is rumored to have influenced the Brothers Grimm to take pen to paper. Is it true? That will be for you to decide. But remember, this is a fairy tale! |
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A budding writer has just two problems that she needs to solve. A story to write. And when to start. 
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One of Tom’s chores irritates him. It’s what crows that fly over his yard do. He gets a clever idea — he will find a way to keep the crows away. His mom thinks it’s a good idea. Doing it turns out to be complicated. |
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Two boys on a train. Another passenger wonders what they’re up to. |
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A Drabble is a story with exactly 100 words. A Double-Drabble is a story with exactly 200 words. Here we have a Double-Drabble for Halloween that’s double-frightening and double-fun. |
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Tom’s a bully, and he picks a target and makes their life miserable. |
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One of Andy Deats’ instructors asked his class to write a paragraph describing a horse playing with an exercise ball. Andy offered it as a writing prompt on the Codey’s World forum, and this is what I wrote. However, I changed it into several paragraphs so it’s easier to read. |
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Under threat of destruction by a group of religious extremist aliens, two men discuss the salvation of the human race... |
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Tom wakes up expecting Josh to be next to him as usual. But he isn't... |
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We all know that love can be a distraction, but during batting practice that distraction can be painful... |
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Teenage boys embarrass easily. But what is it that causes some of them to be embarrassed so often? |
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Sometimes, brothers are the best of friends. Sometimes, not. |
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When you're 13 years old being embarrassed is just about the worst thing that can happen to you... |
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A few interesting facts about the Fourth of July that you might not know. |
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You can have all kinds of friends. But what kind is the most important? |
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Chris is surprised when his sister Anne calls him wanting help with a new cellphone. They live over 400 miles apart. Will Chris be able to help her? |
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Sometimes it pays to read the signs, particularly if you want to avoid getting yourself into an embarrassing situation... |
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Human beings often require acceptance and compassion from the people around them, but both can sometimes be hard to find... |
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Some superstitions exist for a reason, and when a young girl strays too close to a cursed lake, her mother rightly fears the consequences... |
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Jeff asks Dennis to go with him to a campus visit at College of the Pacific. Afterwards Jeff is excited and ready to apply, and Dennis is happy for his friend. It's what happens on their way home that’s going to change their lives. |
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For a teen, a guy, getting his first car can be a momentous milestone... |
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A high school football player has his best day ever. |
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First impressions can be dangerous things when they're wrong, but with some people those misperceptions can be quickly corrected... |
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Gossip can hurt when lies are spread and reputations are tarnished, but when the rumors are true, sometimes the gossip can yield positive results... |
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A girl decides to prove she’s better than a boy. |
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There’s a lot of discussion about whether a person is born gay or whether they can turn gay. Here's a guy who admits that he, indeed, turned gay and can pin it down to the exact date on the calendar. |
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News, good or bad, always has the greatest emotional impact when it comes as a surprise... |
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A little boy wonders if Santa is really going to come on Christmas Eve. |
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What's it like when you're a kid and your parents have smoked all their lives? |
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Is today different because beauty and youth are obsessive? Or is there some other truth. |
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A little girl reads a story about her daddy. Will the audience like her performance? |
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A celebration of enduring love... in the form of an acrostic |
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What are your thoughts when too soon you have to say goodbye so someone you love? |
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Common, everyday things can often cause us to remember things from the past, sweet or poignant or both... |
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Parents like to think of their children as ideal siblings who love each other and get along, but that may not always be true... |
