Remembering Yesterday
A widow's journey into her relationship with her
by BethShelby

Talking to a deceased mate
Prologue
Prologue
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The start of a developing relationship
Chapter 1
The Beginning
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Going on dates is new experience for me.
Chapter 2
First Dates
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Meeting my husband's family
Chapter 3
Meeting the Family
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The end of my high school years
Chapter 4
Early Courtship and Graduation
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Summer after high school
Chapter 5
Summer Interim
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College and Life Changing Decisions
Chapter 6
College Life
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Remembering Younger Days
Chapter 7
What Will Be, Will Be
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My Wedding Day
Chapter 8
The Wedding
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The next thing following the wedding
Chapter 9
The Honeymoon
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Searching for a place to live
Chapter 10
Beginning Our Life Together
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The apartment we rented.
Chapter 11
Apartment Living
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Problems of Newlyweds
Chapter 12
Learning Our Roles in Marriage
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A move from first apartment
Chapter 13
Moving On Up
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Our second Year of marriage
Chapter 14
Our Second Year
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Hazards of my last year in collage.
Chapter 15
The End of My Formal Education
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A Family Crisis and Other Episodes
Chapter 16
Pros and Cons
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Various bits of Life During Fall of 1958
Chapter 17
Reunion With an Old Friend
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Ins and outs of work situations
Chapter 18
Pitfalls Of the Working World
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We buy a new House
Chapter 19
First Pregnancy and Our Own Home
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The first months in our new house.
Chapter 20
Shady Lane Drive
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Birth of first child and what happens next.
Chapter 21
Blessings and Heartache
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People deal with grief differently
Chapter 22
Dealing With Grief
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The new job presents unexpected problems.
Chapter 23
New Job, New Problems
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Someone new on the scene
Chapter 24
And Baby Makes Three
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Balancing working and raising a child
Chapter 25
Parenthood and the Working World
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Pregnant Again, I stay home with my toddler.
Chapter 26
Stay At Home Mom
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The birth of twins brings the family number to five.
Chapter 27
A Growing Family
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Getting used to a growing family.
Chapter 28
Adjusting to Twins
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Job insecurities and the Terrible Twos.
Chapter 29
Growing Pains
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A need to help support the family sends me back to work.
Chapter 30
Back In the Job Market
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I was expected to learn new skills
Chapter 31
Learning More New Skills
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My son causes me to lose my maid.
Chapter 32
Another Change In the Wind
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Dealing with the day to day ups and downs.
Chapter 33
Kiddy Woes and Money Matters
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An illness and a traumatized child
Chapter 34
Childcare Problems Yet Again
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Vignettes of what our life was like in the sixties.
Chapter 35
Life in the Sixties
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Memories of the fall of 1967
Chapter 36
Up in the Air
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Our family life evolves as another year begins.
Chapter 37
Holidays and Another Year
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Adventures on a trip to Colorado
Chapter 38
Going West
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All three children are going to school.
Chapter 39
School Days and Work Relations
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I attend a Printing Institution for further training.
Chapter 40
Nashville
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Again ourfamily deals with change.
Chapter 41
Live-Style Changes In the Making
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Many problems arise as we go about moving.
Chapter 42
Moving Woes
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Change didn't come easy for the family.
Chapter 43
Adjusting to the Changes
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The first winter in our new house.
Chapter 44
The Winter of `69
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Beginning of a new year in our new home.
Chapter 45
Life in Our New Home
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Not everything went smoothly in our lives.
Chapter 46
Things Which Don't End Well
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My Job problems seem to be on a repeating cycle.
Chapter 47
Here We Go Again
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I change jobs once again.
Chapter 48
Home Life and Yet Another Job
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We may be moving to New Orleans
Chapter 49
Uncertain Future
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We ae moving to New Orleans because of a job transfer.
Chapter 50
Leaving the State
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Exploring New Orleans
Chapter 51
The Beginning of a New Adventure
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New Orleans was different from the South as we knew it.
Chapter 52
A Bit of Local Culture
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The children bring home some wild pets.
Chapter 53
Possum Tales
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Miscellaneous things our first year in New Orleans.
Chapter 54
First Year and First Mardi Gras
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Things don't always go smoothly in life.
Chapter 55
Reasons For Concern
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Changing circumstances make life more interesting.
Chapter 56
Life is Full of Changes
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There is always something new in the works.
Chapter 57
Medical, and Other Concerns
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The early waiting period
Chapter 58
Growing Waist & Flaring Tempers
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Leading up to the birth of my new baby
Chapter 59
Baby Number Five
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The first month with our new baby.
Chapter 60
The New Family Addition
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Family activities during our second year in Louisiana.
Chapter 61
Life With a Family of Six
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Personality quirks and ways we dealt with each other.
Chapter 62
Family Dynamics
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Styles and other changes of the the day.
Chapter 63
Seventies Trends and Challenges
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Family needs call for expansion.
Chapter 64
Needs of a Growing Family
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The pros and cons of a vacation.
Chapter 65
Niagara Falls
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Some memories of the mid-seventies.
Chapter 66
As Our World Turned
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A hodge-podge of incidences in 1975
Chapter 67
1975 in Retrospect
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More things that happen in 1973
Chapter 68
Job Solution and Country Days
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Our family takes another vacation
Chapter 69
Rocky Mountain High
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Changes occur in the lives of our children.
Chapter 70
Sitter Changes and Public School
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More Shelby family happenings in 1976
Chapter 71
Fall and Winter of 1976
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Celebration and family occurrences.
Chapter 72
Carnival Season In New Orleans
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Extended family and other updates in 1977
Chapter 73
Shelby Family Updates
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Up and down of family members.
Chapter 74
All About Family
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The children are getting older and ready to leave home.
Chapter 75
First Bird to Leave the Nest
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Continuing memories of the family life.
Chapter 76
More of Life in the Seventies
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Three of the children will be away for the school year.
Chapter 77
A Shrinking Household
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What it's like to be a parent long-distance.
Chapter 78
Long Distance Parenting
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What it was like having them home again.
Chapter 79
The Family Together Again
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Mischief causes my daughter to get in trouble.
Chapter 80
To Graduate or Not to Graduate
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After the summer of 80, we have three in college.
Chapter 81
Summer and Fall of 1980
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All of our children will change schools in the fall.
Chapter 82
Changes in Store For the Four
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The older children change colleges.
Chapter 83
Changing Colleges
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Our son buys his first car with our money.
Chapter 84
The Firebird
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I decide to take some night classes.
Chapter 85
Night School
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Our family makes a trip to Orlando
Chapter 86
We're Going to Disney World
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Carol graduates, but three more are still in school.
Chapter 87
One Down And Three To Go
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It wasn't easy to see my oldest child leave home.
Chapter 88
Leaving the Nest
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A world fair, a funeral, and a possible wedding.
Chapter 89
Highlights of The New Year
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Three kids are camping and one is getting married.
Chapter 90
Camporees and a Wedding
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My daughter goes to Australia
Chapter 91
A Twin Down Under
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Glen's father visits New Orleans.
Chapter 92
Visitors from Down Under
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A time when everything goes wrong.
Chapter 93
Could Things Get Worse?
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Recovering from the trials that saw an end to 1985.
Chapter 94
The Aftermath of the Fire
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Getting back home among other things.
Chapter 95
Forward into 1986
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As the children grew and Evan retired, things changed.
Chapter 96
Changing Family Dynamics
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Evan is anxious to leave the New Orleans area behind.
Chapter 97
In Search of Greener Pastures
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Selling a house isn't so easy.
Chapter 98
How Do We Go About This Move?
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You plan, but sometimes the results surprise you.
Chapter 99
It's Funny How Things Work Out
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For a few months, we had to live the best way we could.
Chapter 100
Living Like Gypsies
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The move from New Orleans to Chattanooga takes place.
Chapter 101
Moving Day
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The first weeks in our new house
Chapter 102
Settling In
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We make some changes on our property.
Chapter 103
New House, New Projects
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Our differing interests and daily activities
Chapter 104
The Shelbys in Motion
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Activities and problems for the five of us.
Chapter 105
Spring and Summer of 1988
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Connie continues to get herself into trouble.
Chapter 106
Further Teenage Trouble
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All my children have the melancholy trait.
Chapter 107
Melancholy Personalities
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The old years ends, and 1989 begins.
Chapter 108
From One Year Into the Next
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The Shelby family moves into another year.
Chapter 109
Beginning the Year of 1988
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Couple need to agree on certain things.
Chapter 110
Money Matters of Concern
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Looking at the world from our viewpoint.
Chapter 111
Looking Back on 1989
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Another summer in the life of the Shelby family.
Chapter 112
Summer of '89
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Another Fall in the life of the Shelby family.
Chapter 113
The Fall of `89
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The fall and winter of 1989.
Chapter 114
The End of a Bang-Up Year
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As usual, not everything goes smoothly.
Chapter 115
Another Bang-Up Beginning
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Another child will soon leave our home.
Chapter 116
Don Pops The Question
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A disastrous occasion in the Shelby household.
Chapter 117
A Rehearsal Dinner Debacle
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Sometimes the good and bad overlap.
Chapter 118
A Wedding and a Surgery
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Evan is recovering from hip surgery.
Chapter 119
The Fall of 1990
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A lot happened with our family during 1990.
Chapter 120
The End of a Memorable Year
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I convince Evan to pursue a case of wrongful death.
Chapter 121
Dealing With A Legal Issue
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Continuing Live among the Shelbys
Chapter 122
1991 As The Year Begins
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The first half of 1991 for the Shelby family.
Chapter 123
Another Milestone
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The Shelby family's summer activities.
Chapter 124
Summer of 1991
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Continuing dynamics of the Shelby family.
Chapter 125
Into the Fall of 1991
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The World in 1991 and the Shelby family.
Chapter 126
The Continuing Shelby Saga
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An end and a new beginning.
Chapter 127
Christmas and the New Year,1992
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A lot of company in the Spring of 1992
Chapter 128
Frequent Family Visitors.
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Our nephew comes to visit.
Chapter 129
Our Nephew, Jimmy
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More changes for the Shelby family.
Chapter 130
Emptying the Nest
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When a child is hurting, the parents hurt too.
Chapter 131
The Down Side of Caring Too Much
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1993 gets off to a bad start.
Chapter 132
A Year of Discontent
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The family comes to terms with a first divorce.
Chapter 133
Dealing With Divorce
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Carol's divorce becomes final.
Chapter 134
Ending and Beginnings
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The year 1993 ends and another year begins.
Chapter 135
Passing Another Milestone
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Sometime life throws unexpected curves.
Chapter 136
Life's Not a Fairytale
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If life gets rough, thoughts turn to going home.
Chapter 137
Home is a Place of Refuge
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Life among family members moved at different paces.
Chapter 138
Currents of Change
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Home is a place to turn to when needed.
Chapter 139
Family Doors Swing Open Again
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Shelby activities during the summer of 1994.
Chapter 140
The Summer of 1994
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At the end of camp, Connie comes home to live.
Chapter 141
Another Birdie Back in the Nest
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Tensions are too high and among family members.
Chapter 142
Something's Got to Give
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The end of another year in the life of Shelby family.
Chapter 144
Saying Good-bye to 1994
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A time when life starts to unravel.
Chapter 144
Aging Parents In Need of Help
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We deal with life the best we know how.
Chapter 145
Problems and Solutions
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I am called to serve on a jury.
Chapter 146
Jury Duty
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End of the jury trial and the verdict
Chapter 147
Caving Under Pressure
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I attend a class reunion and other Shelby news.
Chapter 148
Forty Years Is a Long Time
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The beginning of a bad season.
Chapter 149
Trouble Comes In Clusters
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A family in crisis
Chapter 150
Agonizing Decisions
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Becoming a caregiver was something new for me.
Chapter 151
Coping With Change
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Being a caregiver makes big changes in my life.
Chapter 152
Caregiver for My Dad
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Things caretakers must deal with.
Chapter 153
Adjusting to the Caretaker Role
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Evan and I are adjusting to having Dad around.
Chapter 154
Things Start to Level Out a Bit
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Up and downs of life in the world of the Shelbys
Chapter 155
The Fall of 1995
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1995 has been a difficult year, but it is nearing an end.
Chapter 156
Nearing the End of Trying Year
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1995 had turned out to be a terrible year for me.
Chapter 157
Putting to Rest a Bad Year
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Not everything happening in our lives was negative.
Chapter 158
Sometimes the News is Good
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A new roof on our rental house turns out to be expensive.
Chapter 159
Houses Can Be Money Pits
Posted July 20, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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Bits and pieces of life with the Shelby in 1996
Chapter 160
A Wedding On The Horizon
Posted August 1, 2022General / Fiction
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Days leading to Connie's wedding.
Chapter 161
Prelude to the Wedding
Posted August 14, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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Things that go wrong around weddings
Chapter 162
A Painful Memorable Journey
Posted August 15, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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Dad's surgery and the trip back home.
Chapter 163
After the Wedding
Posted August 19, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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The Shelby family, as the lives goes back to normal.
Chapter 164
The Summer of `96 Continues
Posted August 22, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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As our lives move on, violence explodes not far away.
Chapter 165
Domestic Terror in the News
Posted August 24, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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Projects and other Shelby ventures.
Chapter 166
Do We Really Need a Sun Room?
Posted September 6, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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Keeping the family afloat. isn't easy.
Chapter 167
Fall of 1996
Posted September 27, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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Birthday, Halloween and company in the fall of 1996.
Chapter 168
1996 Is Winding Down
Posted October 5, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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Christmas and the start of 1997
Chapter 169
The Beginning of Another Year
Posted October 8, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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The Shelby family hope 1997 will go well for everyone.
Chapter 170
A New Year and New Challenges
Posted October 12, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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1997 is shaping up much the same as 1996
Chapter 171
Another Year Much Like the Last
Posted October 22, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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Loosing a loved one is never easy.
Chapter 172
A Time of Sadness
Posted December 4, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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Dad's death frees me from my commitments.
Chapter 173
A Shift in a New Direction
Posted December 7, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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I decide to go with my cousin to Italy
Chapter 174
Adventure Awaits
Posted December 11, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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So much to see and so little time.
Chapter 175
Final Day in Rome
Posted December 12, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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There is a change of plans due to something unexpected
Chapter 176
On to Assisi ...Or Not
Posted December 14, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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a day trip to an Island I'd heard about since I was a child.
Chapter 177
The Isle of Capri
Posted December 16, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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We have many hours traveling by bus.
Chapter 178
Traveling Toward Florence
Posted December 18, 2022Biographical / Non-Fiction
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