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- About the writing
- #, date submitted, type of writing
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- Weiss, Hal
- 12/1/44
- Chappaqua, NY
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- "Mom's Laugh"
- Poem
- HW001, 5/22/2000
- The great laugh of the writer's mother.
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- Sisco, Frank
- 4/26/1949
- New Rochelle, NY
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- "Lost Illusions"
- Poem
- FS074, 8/4/2000
- About an elderly homeless man and his pot
of lost illusions.
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- "My Grandpa Died" - Essay
- FS002, 5/23/2000
- About the death of the writer's grandfather
when the writer was 9 years old.
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- "Return of the Leech-Gatherer" - Poem
- FS075, first draft 8/4/2000, second draft
8/15/2000
- A poem about the writer meeting an old man
who was like William Wordsworth's leech-gatherer from "Resolution
and Independence."
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- "Full were his days of youth" - Song lyrics
- FS007, 5/27/2000
- About a man whose best days were in his past.
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- "1-2-3 Work!"
- Essay
- FS008, 6/8/2000
- About the writer's true encounter with Uri
Geller, who although now over 60 was still very capable of performing
"miracles," this time bringing the writer's kitchen
clock back to life.
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- "Tool Parts Chest" - Poem
- FS125, 11/14/2000
- About the writer trying to organize one part
of his life to make up for his grandmother's failing health which
he cannot control.
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- Costanzo, Bill
- 2/5/45
- Mt. Kisco, NY
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- "Nani's Eulogy"
- Essay - Eulogy
- WC006, 5/27/2000
- The writer's grandmother lived more than
one hundred years, filled with precious memories.
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- Engelmann, Karen
- 9/8/54
- Dobbs Ferry, NY
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- "Flight"
- Short story - fiction
- KE019, 6/8/2000
- A grandmother brings a handed-down bird ornament
out of hiding.
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- Nardelli, Jon
- 9/10/45
- Mount Vernon, NY
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- "Memories of My Grandmother" - Essay
- JN030, 6/15/2000
- The writer describes his loving memories
of his grandmother.
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Rubins, Marlene
- 7/27/1948
- Kew Gardens Hills, NY
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- "Eulogy about Tamara Rubins
(1916 - 2000)" - Essay
- MR048, 6/24/2000
- A eulogy about the writer's mother.
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Mercer, Lynne
- 2/24/1943
- Bronxville, NY
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- "Sympathy for the Devil" - Poem
- LM052, 7/4/2000
- About a bedridden man's thoughts, especially
about his caregiver.
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- Lawrence, Jessica Gail
- 10/29/1949
- White Plains, NY
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- "No Mourning"
- Poem
- JL086, 8/27/2000
- About the writer's thoughts of her mother
who is in a nursing home.
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- "The Face I Never Knew" - Poem
- JL090, 9/17/2000
- About the writer's thoughts of her mother
as seen in an old photograph.
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- "A Wake-Up Tale"
- Poem
- JL166, 4/5/2001
- About the writer's dog.
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- M. L. Needle
- 12/11/??
- Yorktown, NY
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- "Tempus Edax Rerum" (Time devours all things) - Poem
- MN115, 10/30/2000
- About an older woman's fleeting reflections
on time.
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- "Where Your Eyes Take Me" - Poem
- MN116, 10/30/2000
- About an older woman's experiences dealing
with her partner's nightmares.
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- "Grief That Sweats" - Poem
- MN117, 10/30/2000
- About a mother's emotional visit to her son's
gravesite.
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- Zaretzky, Marion
- 4/8/1946
- White Plains, NY
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- "The Man Upstairs" - Essay
- MZ161, 2/6/2001
- About an inspiring aged man who lives upstairs
from the writer.
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- Sisco, Kelly
- 4/22/1984
- New Rochelle, NY
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- "Forever"
- Poem
- KS163, 4/4/2001
- About the meaning of forever.
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- Finnerty, Eugene
- ? birth date
- White Plains, NY
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- "Those Finnertys" - Poem
- EF164, 4/5/2001
- A poem about two Irish families.
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- "Ode to Ireland - From a Son
Beyond The Wave" - Poem
- EF165, 4/5/2001
- A poem as a tribute to Ireland and her sons
and daughters everywhere.
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- Brick, Maurice
- ? birth date
- New Rochelle, NY
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- "Off the Irish Coast" - Essay
- MB167, 4/5/2001
- An essay about the Blasket Island, off the
coast of Ireland, and of its stories, including one about a man
and his unshakeable faith.
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- Gentile, Leanne T.
- 9/18/1979
- Harrison, NY
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- "Grandpa's Eulogy" - Essay
- LG169, 4/24/2001
- An essay about the writer's grandfather,
Louis Gentile, who died on 4/3/2001. She read the eulogy at his
funeral mass held at Saint Gregory the Great Church in Harrison,
NY on 4/6/2001. It was also read on 4/19/2001 on the Senior Musings
radio show (WVOX 1460 AM) by her relative Sal Parisi.
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