Before I Forget . .

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JIMMY SWANN
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June 2025

DOWNSIZING
#127 - For months they’d been thinking, “We have to get rid of all this stuff.” Meaning the stuff that gathers and fills a home over the years. “We…
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Trains, Trees, And Arrows
#17rp - It was an easy thing to do. Thick woods pressed up against the tracks on both sides just below the overpass. I could get up close, make sure ...
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AFTER PUSH COMES TO SHOVE
#126 - But his senses returned. His own actions and thoughts scared him. He stood there, staring, shaking. What had happened? Who was the crazy one…
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MY DAYS AT HARVARD
#125 - ...so that I could drive the ninety miles to Boston to the campus in Cambridge. It’s just across the Charles River. (”I love that dirty water.”)
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May 2025

The Shower
#124 - The next space of time didn't register. It could have been seconds, or hours.
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Montana Rancher Ellen Cotton
#16rp - She remarried becoming Ellen Cotton. They accumulated land and cattle. That marriage also failed, but she still stayed.
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Bird In Hand
#123 - It was now down to 3500 acres, a fraction of what it was once. He was losing it piece by piece.
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55 Rides To Cross The Country -pt 2
#15rp - . . . it was clouding up to rain. Which it did just as a young couple picked me up, smiling as they said, “they didn’t want my guitar to get…
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55 Rides To Cross The Country
#14rp - Hold your guitar close . .
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April 2025

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