Comment from NicciFaye

Excellent

I love how you wrote...life is good for me in the present...Indeed it should be for all of us that can reflect on how far we've come. A great 150 word spill!

 Comment Written 21-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 21-Apr-2014

Thanks for the kind comments, in your review. Mary

Comment from Smoothiecool

Excellent

good luck in the contest

you have told your story well with the images that allow the reader to see and feel this
flows well easy read

cheers Smoothiecool

 Comment Written 21-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 21-Apr-2014

thanks for your kind review, Mary

reply by Smoothiecool on 21-Apr-2014

most welcome..SC

Comment from Hadria

Exceptional

Very well written indeed, to compress a life into 150 words is some challenge. I love the photo of you and your Dad. Every best wish for the Golden Wedding in August. Hadria

 Comment Written 20-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 20-Apr-2014

Thank you hadria, for the great review I appreciate it. Mary

Comment from Joan E.

Excellent

Thanks for adding the black and white photograph which helps to establish the tone. We are similar in age and interests (especially writing, painting and traveling) but I have a few more years to catch up to you--I've only been married for 42! As the contest required, you covered your whole life in very few words--no small feat. I am glad to hear that after the ups and downs of life, you are at a good place. Many hugs and best wishes in the contest- Joan

 Comment Written 19-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 20-Apr-2014

Thanks Joan for the great comments, I forgot to mention cooking, do you like that also. Mary

Comment from adewpearl

Excellent

Fifty years of marriage, congratulations!
You do a great job of hitting the highlights of your life along with some valleys.
I'm so glad that this part of your life is so good :-) Brooke
fantastic photo, by the way :-)

 Comment Written 19-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 19-Apr-2014

Thanks Brooke for the great review.I am pleased that you like it. Mary

Comment from Mike Battaglia

Excellent

Read this again, ma'am. This is your life, your epitaph. What YOU make of your own life; what matters most. It is beautiful. We all are no more than the sum of our experiences. That's what makes us who we are; what defines our lives. Yours reads beautifully.

:)
--Mike

 Comment Written 19-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 19-Apr-2014

Thanks Mike for a wonderful review I appreciate it. Mary

Comment from LoannaLois

Excellent

I am so happy to read this of you...and you did such a great job! Astrology...how interesting and something about which I know nothing! You'll have to teach some of us! Good job with the great introduction to Jackarrie.

 Comment Written 19-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 19-Apr-2014

I have already put 5-7-5 poems of all the 12 signs. I may go over again with a different style of short poem. Thanks for the great review. Mary

Comment from Tomes Johnston

Excellent

This is an absolutely fantastic and heartwarming picture of you and your dad. Well done on the writing and the complete short history of your life. Congratulations on the wedding anniversary.

 Comment Written 19-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 19-Apr-2014

Thank you Tomes, I really appreciate your review. Mary

reply by Tomes Johnston on 19-Apr-2014

My pleasure

Comment from tbacha58

Excellent

Congratulations, for the golden wedding, so nice to share your life time with us, and that also shows what a courageous woman you were and still are. Beautiful writing. Hugs Terry xoxo

 Comment Written 18-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 18-Apr-2014

Thanks Terry for the wonderful review and comments. Mary

Comment from maggieadams

Excellent

You have such a positive outlook on life...spinal fusion surgery is no picnic...you have managed to go for the gusto and the golden anniversary. Congrats on a life well lived.

 Comment Written 18-Apr-2014

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reply by the author on 18-Apr-2014

Thank you Maggie, I also had my neck fused, and a hip operation. I am enjoying my life today and hope to for a long time to come. Mary

reply by maggieadams on 19-Apr-2014

Good for you. Hope you can review my new chapter of my book, Are you My Mother?"