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Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Living with the past

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My past is not as horrible as some, but neither is it perfect. Of course who's is? I grew up in a dysfunctional family before dysfunctional was a word. My mother was dominant, my father submissive, my sister and I abused. Not horrible like I said. We were never damaged severely, locked in a closet, burned, or any of the othe...

Relationships & Family > Blended Families The challenge of blended families

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We are a very unique type of blended family. We are not the normal, her children, his children, their children, kind of blended family. This is what we are. We are the middle aged parents of two grown children now both out on their own. We are also the guardians of a set of twins, a boy and a girl, who have lived with us ful...

Religion & Spirituality > Christian Holidays & Celebrations Should Christians celebrate Halloween

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This is a good question and one I'm not sure I have the right answer for. I have raised two children and I am now raising two more. That's another story in itself. When my first two were young we celebrated Halloween and I thought nothing of it. I even had spiders, ghosts, and witches hanging in my house, even though I had h...

Relationships & Family > Dating Commentary Dating vs. courtship

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My daughter was seventeen when she started dating the man who was to become her husband. He was twenty-two. We are Christians and had fairly strict rules about dating especially when there was a five year age difference and he had a past before he became a Christian. We had known this particular young man for a few years. He...

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