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Dear Reader,
Thanks for telling me a story. If your story is in today's column send an email, including your mailing address, and I'll send you a free book.
Below are readers' stories, inspired by Wednesday's column about Grandma's journals. If you missed it, go to: http://tinyurl.com/yg5mjbb
"Dear Suzanne, your grandma sounds a lot like me! I'm 66 and I've kept a journal since I was about nineteen. That is exactly what I do to this day! I write down that I did the laundry, changed the bed, cleaned the floor, went to my granddaughter and grandson's ball games, etc. Many times I've gone back to see when something happened. When my family wants to know about an event in the past, they know I can look it up. Keep up the good work, Suzanne. I love your daily reads!"--Verna B.
"My dad kept journals all through his life, and wrote in them every little thing that happened. He traveled a lot and when he came home, he would ask my mom what went on while he was gone, and then he'd write it in his journal. Thanks to his journals, we know how many quarts of tomatoes were canned on a particular day, or when I won the blue ribbon at the fair and even when my brother had the diarrhea (much to his dismay). Oh, the memories that came flooding back when I read your story. My dad has been gone for 33 years now and these memories made it feel like he was still there, sitting at the kitchen table, writing in his journal."--Katherine M.
"Hi Suzanne, Reading about your Grandma's Journals brought back memories of stories my mother used to tell us about when she grew up. My mother was a sharecropper's daughter, born in 1925, gone now seven years this month. Your grandmother cooked coon, my mother made "hog jaw & chittlins" and use to take the seat out of the Model-T and put it in the living room to sit on when they weren't driving the car. I think the reason these things mean so much to us is the connection factor. The stories we read or hear about, connect us by blood to history, whether our own, or the world around us. It's an innate need to belong. The stories you tell us about you, your friends and family--you belong to us--your readers. You are part of our lives. And the fact that so many of us write back to you shows you that we belong to you also. It 'is' so nice to read with friends, but it's also nice to belong to such a wonderful group of readers."--Linda G.
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Warmest regards,
Suzanne Beecher
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