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My sister keeps living and loving

November 4, 2025November 4, 2025 / megdedwards / 2 Comments

My sister has pulled herself out of a life of drug addiction and street living. In her sixties she finally managed to kick the habit and now lives in assisted living for the elderly in a nice little apartment, enjoying her life. She loves a visit, a meal out, getting her hair done, or just … Continue reading My sister keeps living and loving

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Summer in the Country

June 20, 2024January 30, 2025 / megdedwards / Leave a comment

They must have been dreaming of living there. There must have been dreams.

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Loving my Sister

January 14, 2023October 8, 2024 / megdedwards / 2 Comments

Has becoming a senior citizen mellowed my sister? I honestly dare not write about the good fortune of my sister, as I fear I will jinx it. You know how my family is about OBA (the Old Bitch Above) and her unpredictable ways: 'don't get too comfortable, god knows what is around the corner'. That … Continue reading Loving my Sister

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Lies I tell to Myself

January 20, 2022January 23, 2022 / megdedwards / 4 Comments

She starts to giggle and her head blurs as she leans over in laughter, looking back at the camera, her giggling silently intensifies until tears are streaming from her smiling eyes, crescents of sparkle, flashing green through her long eyelashes.

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