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I'm Different From Other Girls
We went as far as the car would take us.We are in the densest of jungles, no other humans around.There is no alternative route, the only way through now, is by foot.This is by no means the first adventure, my mother and myself had encountered. Since my bwww.onedoor.ccirth, sixteen years ago, we have never settled anywhere for longer than three months.My mother's knowledge of the jungle is impressive, but then most of whatever she decides for us to do, is the same. Most of her skills, she'd learned from my Grandfather, God bless his soul, and the life she'd lived with him is now being passed down to me. I've...
Preparations
Health workers were running helter skelter, pulling stretcher here and there. The Ambulances were flashing their red lights and blaring their sirens nonstop and dead bodies and the wounded were being loaded into them and taking to the hospitals.There was commotion everywhere. Some stretchers were bumping into each, voices raised here and there by the tiring workers. Volunteers were not left out of the actions; they were contributing their quota in clearing the dead and wounded.The officers with their black and white stripe cars flashing their lights were providing security to the workers at th...
The Incident
It was August 23, 1951, I was heading for 1215 Walnut Street. As I trudged through the streets of Philadelphia I thought of how I had received my position at the Electronic Controls Company. I thought about how the Company was founded. I worked at the Electronic Controls Company. The company was founded in 1946 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, my bosses. With the prospect of receiving some money, the company rented their first offices at 1215 Walnut Street in Philadelphia and began to hire employees. I was one of the first employees. We were inventing a computer design. A design that w...
Snow? In July!
Snow? In July! Suzanne MarshBeing a professional seat cover for twenty two years I thought I had seen everything. All most everything that is; until we had a load going to sunny California. It was mid July in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico. It was a beautiful sunny day, when we left Albuquerque, New Mexico to deliver a load in Ontario, California. My husband and I both had shorts on and the ac on. Little did we know how quickly the weather would change. Being from Buffalo, New York nothing should have surprised us. Good old Interstate 40, it was never my favorite interstate, and those dark...