Tag: aging
member name: Pina M.
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October 24, 2009 03:45 PM EDT --
WHERE I AM FROM, NOW:
SURVIVOR
(This is my first foray into writing about my cancer diagnosis since I finished the last of my treatment modalities in December 2008. Forgive it's . . .
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October 02, 2006 10:10 PM EDT --
Preface:
Those who know me on Gather - or rather, are getting to know me - are aware that I lost my mother 31 years ago to cancer and my father 26 years ago to heart disease. I was 19 and 24 years old . . .
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August 15, 2007 11:16 PM EDT --
ON GROWING OLDER...from Nymph to Crone-to-be
(With thanks to Bruce K. who got me thinking)
"Leaves are falling all around,
It's time I was on my way.
Thanks to you, I'm much obliged . . .
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September 17, 2006 01:35 PM EDT --
When I was 15 years old my mother told me that I was what she called "a woman's woman" as opposed to being "a man's woman" like my older sister. I wasn't exactly sure . . .
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September 17, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
The summer we sold our house in NYC (1973) my parents shuttled me off to live with my older brother, his wife and baby son on the South Jersey Shore while they stayed in the City and packed. My parents . . .
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September 09, 2006 11:33 PM EDT --
I turned 50 in November 2005 and surprised myself by actually being happy about turning this page on my life. Well, I finally was happy about it when the day actually came - I spent the . . .
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September 16, 2006 02:25 PM EDT --
Today, Saturday, September 16th, is my 6th wedding anniversary to a man I met and fell in love with on line in March 2000. I had been divorced for about 4 years by that point in time, and pretty . . .
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November 03, 2007 08:14 PM EDT --
For 32 1/2 years I have dreaded the day I would turn the proverbial page of my life and finally come "full circle" to meet- head on - the embodiment of all my fears, the age of 52, . . .
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April 17, 2008 07:04 PM EDT --
The Journey Revealed: Breast Cancer - Reality Sets In (Part 2)
Over thirty years ago I remember reading an article about Betty Rollin, a former NBC News Correspondent and . . .
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