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Weekly Contest #366
Getting it RightJulia Owens My mother was the nurse supervisor on the obstetrics floor of Bluefield Sanatorium in West Virginia. It was a bustling railroad town, which is how she met my father, a locomotive engineer. They married and I was born in 1935. Father traveled a good bit with the railroad and Mother worked the night shift to be home for me after school. We were a family of few words. I was at home on leave from the Air Force when my Father took that opportunity to commit suicide. In the basement, he had laid down several layers...
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