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In Memory of Mrs. Edith Jones

May 1, 2017May 2, 2017 by Lorene Cary

For years, I’d meet our neighbor, Mrs. Edith Jones, a few blocks from home, and she’d be hauling more bags than it was humanly possible to carry.

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The Power of Three

April 1, 2017April 2, 2017 by Lorene Cary

One Saturday morning over McDonald’s coffee and breakfast sandwiches at their apartment, I tried to explain safekidsstories.com to my father and his girlfriend. Our first “series,” I said, had to do with how choosing a book could make one safer, even if only in one’s mind and heart. Then it occurred to me to ask my dad. This is the story that followed.

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