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Twelve years ago, while driving through the lush green hills surrounding Rocheport, Missouri, I suddenly KNEW it was time to come home. Fortunately, David — my then-fiance and now-husband (and a Michigan guy) whom I was living with in New Mexico (whew…are you keeping track?) — agreed to come too! We were married in...

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What better way to leave your wedding reception than with the message “peace, love and happiness” printed (with a soap bar, I think?, complements of a few scheming groomsmen) on your getaway car’s passenger window? For Chisa and Cory, it was the perfect sendoff. Still waters run deep with these two; their quiet, calm exteriors...

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…or more specifically: “MOM, this is NOT about taking pictures”[as tears welled up in his little eyes]
That’s what Tycho told me [me: sob, giggle, sob] when lining up with his class to go into the school building on his very first day of kindergarten. For a fleeting moment, I actually caught myself...

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