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Winona Forme's avatar

Your story is very powerful. I'm so sorry for your loss.

Today is mom's birthday. She would have been 100 today. Your story of visitors touched me. Birds and other natural things that demand our attention are messengers. Pay attention...

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Mark Gibbons's avatar

Pay attention, there's a mantra.

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Pamela S Cole's avatar

Without ever having been there I feel the connection. Our Irish ancestors surely call. Your writing touched me.

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Daniel Struckman's avatar

I enjoyed your narrative of approaching the stone house where Delia once ran out to her friend from down the way. This rang true for me because some of us visited a log house in Vang, Norway, where our great-great grandmother lived 150 years ago. You remember the details of such an encounter with your past.

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