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WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER GOOD BREEDING????   7/18/2011

I saw this word in a blog a couple of days ago, this has nothing to do with that blog of the writer as such, but the meaning of the word in it self. My mother used that word freely, if you did not com


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THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME   6/14/2011

There are many new illness that did not exist when I went to nursing school or even when I was working in Northern CA. there was some drug addictions, but seamed more heroin and later LSD and mushroom


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GOING BACK 28   12/7/2010

My father and I left three days later, my mother chose not to accompany us, maybe if I had seen the plane before we were going to fly in I might have changed my mind too…It was a very bumpy ride, no


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GOING BACK 27   11/30/2010

Easter in the convent I think was larger than Christmas, many preparations were done for Palm Sunday, Father Spirituale was there almost every morning giving Mass, and again I had to participate. It


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GOING BACK 26   11/20/2010

It was about a couple of days before I had to return to Lima and back to school, I woke up with high temperature and chills, the local doctor/vet was called in and his diagnosis was Malaria, a little


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AN EVENING WITH MAMACITA...   11/18/2010

Mamacita's name is Anita, she is 89 and is a widow. I meet Mamacita when she was married to Harry about 15 years ago. She would come in the store I would work for part time, I liked her and I thought


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GOING BACK 25   11/17/2010

At times the jungle would be so dense that you could hardly see the people in front of you, at other times it would sudden open up, considering this was just the entrance to the Amazon, I can understa


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GOING BACK 24   11/16/2010

We rode for several hours, finely we reached the campsite, this was very exciting, I remember the great time I had with my father in the Galapagos, and thought that I had all knowledge to direct th


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GOING BACK 23   11/10/2010

On the other side of the bridge (the one the sheep jumped off) there lived several American families, including a Swedish family that had a little girl about 10 years old. The little girl had severe C


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GOING BACK 15   10/20/2010

When I was eleven I became a Musketeer. I had read Dumas book ‘The three Musketeers” and fell in love with Porthos, he was the blond handsome one in the middle of picture on the book cover, he had


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GOING BACK 13   10/16/2010

The nuns: Anyone that has gone to Proroqual School will tell you that whoever said the priests and nuns were saints, are liars. We all know that living a celibate life does terrible things to the hum


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GOING BACK 12   10/15/2010

My father was hired by an American engineer company that had a contract with the Peruvian Government. They were building roads, bridges and dams, it was a massive program, my father was in charge of t


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GOING BACK 11   10/13/2010

We had been in the winter house about 6 months when I heard a lot of arguing coming from my grandfather ‘s office, it was a voice of a woman, I thought that I sort of recognized it but could not id


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GOING BACK 10   10/11/2010

My father: My father came from a very prominent old Swiss family with history going back many generations, his background was as different from my mother’s as day and night. Streets carry our name


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GOING BACK 8   10/10/2010

MY mother: Most women are borne to be mothers, some are not, my mother belonged to the latter, somehow God had devoid her of the mother instinct. She was the youngest of the five siblings. I have bee


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GOING BACK 8   10/9/2010

History of my maternal grandfather My maternal grandfather was a mystery to us all, little was known about his family. This is what I know. He married my grandmother who was a widow, her husband that


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GOING BACK 7   10/8/2010

There some rather laud noise coming from the down stairs winery, lots banging, it was there when I went to kindergarten and still when I came back. I asked the house keeper why they were making so muc


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GOING BACK 6   10/7/2010

That fall (would be 1945) pulled wagons arrived at the apple orchard, many people had been hired to pick the apples of the trees, it was a very exciting time for my cousins and me, we were quite i


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GOING BACK 5   10/6/2010

My aunt was married to a sea captain, he was Flag Ship Captain for for the Danish-French Line, so he was hardly ever home, but obviously home enough for me to have four cousins to play with. One was o


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GOING BACK 4   10/5/2010

There was wagon that was drawn by a that would come into the courtyard a couple times a week, bringing milk and eggs, during the war was this was restricted and people were only able to get small


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GOING BACK 3   10/4/2010

My grandfather was a big fish in a small pond, he was in the wine import and export, the real state consist of a block radius, the apartment was on the first floor, bellow that was the wine cellar tha


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GOING BACK 2   10/3/2010

The train finely came to the stop I was to get off, one of the passenger, I think it was a woman, but her face is a blur, had a sweater on, she had been sitting next to me holding my hand, I remember


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GOING BACK   10/2/2010

As I was laying in bed last night thinking how far back I could remember from my earliest childhood. I have not made it a secret that my childhood and teenage years were pretty awful and very unhappy.


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