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If there has ever been a time in my life when I feel like crawling under the bed with a blankie and lying there whimpering – it just might be now. Now, I really don’t see myself as a wimp, like a girl who has never had to face anything more unpleasant than a pimple on her nose on prom night. I’ve faced my own share of serious diseases, loss of loved ones, being stranded in blizzard conditions, job loss, and car wrecks.
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In this installment of ‘Profiles in History,’ we meet an innovator whose family emergency led to the creation of the pay phone.
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Earlier this year a study on the future of families was reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. One of the study’s authors was Dr. Deigo Alburez-Gutierrez, a scholarly gent who researches and writes about family relationships. This study affirmed what I was beginning to notice in my own group of relatives, namely, families are getting older and smaller and the age gap between the youngest and oldest is widening.
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“No Matter What” is the title of a popular song released in recent years. The lyrics talk about, “No matter whether we really try to please Him, or if we choose to throw a monstrous bomb into our life and the lives of those around us, He just loves us – no matter what.”
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