A Particular Friendship
Viewing comments for Chapter 32 "Dark Energies"We meet Lizzy who has just come out of the convent
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Comment from Karen Cherry Threadgill
Never saw or heard about bottle dumps, But I Did come across cheap ones in thrift stores. That math thing makes a lot of sense. You write with great feeling. I was almost their crawling around with you.
Good work. Karen
reply by the author on 06-Mar-2024
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Never saw or heard about bottle dumps, But I Did come across cheap ones in thrift stores. That math thing makes a lot of sense. You write with great feeling. I was almost their crawling around with you.
Good work. Karen
Comment Written 06-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 06-Mar-2024
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Thank you so much for your delightful review. Your enthusiasm brightens my day.
Comment from Beck Fenton
Mary surprised us all and I'm so sorry you lost such a good friend. She's just around the corner, waiting to see you. Take care of yourself and smile when you can.
reply by the author on 05-Mar-2024
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Mary surprised us all and I'm so sorry you lost such a good friend. She's just around the corner, waiting to see you. Take care of yourself and smile when you can.
Comment Written 05-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 05-Mar-2024
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Thank you back I appreciate that. I grump to marry almost everyday many times a day I just feel like she's still here. I haven't told you about my wonderful news about being taking on by Simon and Schuster they are publishing all my books. AndI will soon besigning a contract till 11:00 coming up and when I doHer name is Rebecca the editor She will be bringing all my books so I will have all my books to deliver to you I'm going to have my friend Linda drive me around and I will drop them off for you. I have the 3 Be Wee With Bea books which are actually at this time being made into a Netflix movie. I think it's B2 that I have dedicated to you. We will get them to you. Sad sad no need to drop off any books for Mary. As you know and someone leaves, they're just gone. Mary is just gone. Thank you for getting to me. I appreciate it.
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I'm thrilled by the news of big things coming your way. Yay!!!!!
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Thank you and I will get those books to you after the 11th. What I do is I go up to my friend Linda's who's up in Mount Holly and then we drive down into Rutland and visit people or in this case I'll be dropping off books for you . The road has to get better or I'll just go a different road but the road I usually go on for a shortcut is a mudtrap right now
Comment from patcelaw
You're writing skills are excellent and is always a joy to listen to your stories as I listen to it I don't so much read it because of my vision but I can listen to it and it flows very well when it's really loud your sentence structure in your paragraph is very well done as well. Patricia .
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2024
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You're writing skills are excellent and is always a joy to listen to your stories as I listen to it I don't so much read it because of my vision but I can listen to it and it flows very well when it's really loud your sentence structure in your paragraph is very well done as well. Patricia .
Comment Written 04-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2024
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Patricia I am honored that you are able to enjoy and appreciate my story as much as you are I'm glad you can listen to it and I hope it makes some sense as you're listening to it play. I listen to mine before I post before I post, it because by listening to it I can hear if there's any areas that need to be fixed
Comment from BethShelby
I'm enjoying your story Liz as you are writing about you life and what things were like growing up and I'm doing a lot of that too. When we are older we are fortunate if we have retained the memories. I'd like to pass them on to those coming behind us.
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2024
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I'm enjoying your story Liz as you are writing about you life and what things were like growing up and I'm doing a lot of that too. When we are older we are fortunate if we have retained the memories. I'd like to pass them on to those coming behind us.
Comment Written 04-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2024
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Thank you for your wonderful affirmation of me and my writing. I am excited that you are writing too about your stuff your life and they will begin to publish it on here.
Comment from LateBloomer
Hi Liz, I never encountered any bottle dumps growing up in NYC, but my younger brother and I collected soda bottles at the construction site of what is now Fordham University Law School and the Lincoln Center. This site was across the street from my parish church and grade school. We spent hours collecting those bottles. For a kid, it was quite a lucrative adventure.
In your story, I especially liked:
The family and their descendants had been living there at least one hundred years tossing bottles out.
(WOW! That must have been quite a collection, and some of them were probably valuable. I just can't imagine going out your back door and dumping/disposing of bottles. Crazy, and lazy.)
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They also tore down two houses which profited me because I could easily access wood from those 1800's houses and the 1950s siding of the same era as my house.
(Recycling at it finest)
Liz, I get the math dilemma. I find it impressive that math wasn't your best subject, but yet you went on to teach math. Did you like teaching math or were you wishing you were somewhere else?
As far as math goes, once I got past basic math, I was lost. It was all Greek to me. I just couldn't imagine what I might need it for... and I never did need Geometry, etc. Don't get me talking about those word math problems. More nonsense. I hate doing them with my grandson. He's very good at math, and he quickly knows the answer, but then they want you to "prove" your answer... turn the word problem into a math equation, and that's where we get into trouble. He just doesn't understand why he has to prove his answer, and his answers, so far, are always correct. I my heart, I agree with him, but I insist that he follow the directions. Next year, he'll be in 4th grade, and I'll probably be too incompetent to help him any further. Lol, but true.)
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I believe if I had brought the bottles home with me and placed them on my shelf, the energy in the room would not have felt good.
(That's true. Also, the fun of collecting the bottles is that You, Liz collected them, and not someone else.)
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I am a little sad as we come up to daylight savings time.
(Liz, I'm sorry about the passing of your friend. She won't be there to call you, but she will be with you. Perhaps, she'll send you a sign?)
Thank you for sharing this story. As you can see, you jogged many of my own memories. Well done. Have a great night. Margaret
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2024
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Hi Liz, I never encountered any bottle dumps growing up in NYC, but my younger brother and I collected soda bottles at the construction site of what is now Fordham University Law School and the Lincoln Center. This site was across the street from my parish church and grade school. We spent hours collecting those bottles. For a kid, it was quite a lucrative adventure.
In your story, I especially liked:
The family and their descendants had been living there at least one hundred years tossing bottles out.
(WOW! That must have been quite a collection, and some of them were probably valuable. I just can't imagine going out your back door and dumping/disposing of bottles. Crazy, and lazy.)
And:
They also tore down two houses which profited me because I could easily access wood from those 1800's houses and the 1950s siding of the same era as my house.
(Recycling at it finest)
Liz, I get the math dilemma. I find it impressive that math wasn't your best subject, but yet you went on to teach math. Did you like teaching math or were you wishing you were somewhere else?
As far as math goes, once I got past basic math, I was lost. It was all Greek to me. I just couldn't imagine what I might need it for... and I never did need Geometry, etc. Don't get me talking about those word math problems. More nonsense. I hate doing them with my grandson. He's very good at math, and he quickly knows the answer, but then they want you to "prove" your answer... turn the word problem into a math equation, and that's where we get into trouble. He just doesn't understand why he has to prove his answer, and his answers, so far, are always correct. I my heart, I agree with him, but I insist that he follow the directions. Next year, he'll be in 4th grade, and I'll probably be too incompetent to help him any further. Lol, but true.)
Also:
I believe if I had brought the bottles home with me and placed them on my shelf, the energy in the room would not have felt good.
(That's true. Also, the fun of collecting the bottles is that You, Liz collected them, and not someone else.)
And:
I am a little sad as we come up to daylight savings time.
(Liz, I'm sorry about the passing of your friend. She won't be there to call you, but she will be with you. Perhaps, she'll send you a sign?)
Thank you for sharing this story. As you can see, you jogged many of my own memories. Well done. Have a great night. Margaret
Comment Written 04-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2024
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Thank you for your delightful review. In addition to having that bottle dump out behind their house they also had an indoor outdoor toilet. It was the strangest place really because you would go up these steps get behind a little wall and you could hear the plops and the liquid going down to the dirt at the bottom of the house. But the strangest thing is they also had a most beautiful phonograph with the RCA dog. speaker. They were the ones who washed their clothes in lestoil Oh it was quite a trip I'll tell you. I'm glad you enjoyed it There will be more enjoyable chapters following.
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RE: It was the strangest place really because you would go up these steps get behind a little wall and you could hear the plops and the liquid going down to the dirt at the bottom of the house.
Liz, it sounds like it was a make-shift toilet...not connected to a septic or sewer. I wonder how the house smelled? Clothes pin, please. M
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A good question. of course I was child so I hardly noticed the smell. I guess it just was what their house smelled like. Pretty well that whole river with the exception of our house had sewage going into it. You may remember the one next door for Timmy. We would see a wad of toilet paper coming out the pipe from under the stone wall and everybody yelled "somebody just flushed the toilet inTimmy's house.
Hello seem normal to us but now I look back and it is hilarious
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Years ago, so much was dumped into our waters--not just toilet paper.
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Yes, it is amazing what appeared "normal" to us as kids is now either hysterical ... or not so funny, anymore.
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major laughing out loud or what!
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Ours was just the home sewage coming down from where the houses were into the brook. For some reason we must have had a sewage system that went into some kind of a town depository. Most health nuts would have been upset to know that our mothers let us play in the brook. We actually sat down in the water as it was streaming down a little tiny bank of rocks, but you know I never got sick. I mean I have pretty well a record at 77 of never really have gotten sick. LOL
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Those were the days when children were allowed to play like children. M
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So true
Comment from lyenochka
I'm sorry to hear that your friend passed so suddenly. We'd like a warning about such things! I know you'll get other reminders to change the clocks. Interesting theory about the emotional/psychological reasons that math can be a problem for kids. Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2024
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I'm sorry to hear that your friend passed so suddenly. We'd like a warning about such things! I know you'll get other reminders to change the clocks. Interesting theory about the emotional/psychological reasons that math can be a problem for kids. Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 03-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2024
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Thank you for your call and compassing review. It was nice to see you took it all in thank you. What was kind of funny about my friend Mary was she was the head of the book tour She was the headmunk and she's the one that got drawn & quartered. She said. "oh such a nice friend."
of course I didn't do any of my friends any service by having them be in the drama of the king closing all of the monasteries and beheading everyone .
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Well, it sounds like she appreciated being included! There have been some fun contests lately where Fanstorians' names were used...
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I noticed that about some of the writings people have been doing. They've includied members. I saw your name on one of them. I know if you were possibly driving getaway car or something else.
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one the really nice things is Rebekah my editor asked me how many friends I had and that she would bring as many books as I needed, when she comes for for the signing
I was originally asking her where my friend Somara should look to buy them for me to send to all my friends who are in my books. The sighing is written on the contract to be on the 11th. I am so excited. I will let you know when it has happened. Then I will write my issues tofinally get here.
Comment from jim vecchio
I also am lousy at math. I never could stand it. Sometimes, it's the teacher. The only class I ever failed in school was geometry, with a 65. I took it in summer school with a good teacher and got 90. Likewise college. I was always on The Dean's List of Honors. I hated to take Math, but had to. The teacher was lousy and one day screamed at the class and stormed out. I took as "pass" instead of a number grade and continued in Honors.
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2024
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I also am lousy at math. I never could stand it. Sometimes, it's the teacher. The only class I ever failed in school was geometry, with a 65. I took it in summer school with a good teacher and got 90. Likewise college. I was always on The Dean's List of Honors. I hated to take Math, but had to. The teacher was lousy and one day screamed at the class and stormed out. I took as "pass" instead of a number grade and continued in Honors.
Comment Written 03-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2024
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Thank you for your complimintary review. I got 7 out of 100 in my geometry standardized test. bwaaa. Not surprising We both have similar patterns.
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Math has always been my downfall.
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mine too... Most everything me on the four operations Well even in division it didn't get too good or I think multiplication was problem too Yeah. bwaaa!
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I'm growing older by the moment, and still have found no need in my life for all those math classes!
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ha ha ha I had lessons but don't know how to use them
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It's funny, because my niece who is a big help to me, is a whiz at math. Don't know where those genes came from!
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We can hire her or consult her. It's just little questions I think I want to buy something at a certain price and something else is at another price What is it per ounce? and it won't tell me this for the other. It is per pound and then in the other one say what per ounce but I can't make that conversion. Maybe your niece can figure out for me bwaaa
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All I can tell you is that my niece stepped in when my wife died and I was very ill, sold our house, and made a foundation for my daughter if anything happens to me. I'm thankful I could depend on her!
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Wonderful so good to know you have her there.
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Yes, she's a real blessing!
Comment from barbara.wilkey
I just remember returning own bottles but not picking them up. I did know of children who did. You're doing a wonderful job writing these and I am enjoying reading them.
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2024
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I just remember returning own bottles but not picking them up. I did know of children who did. You're doing a wonderful job writing these and I am enjoying reading them.
Comment Written 03-Mar-2024
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2024
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Thank you for your delightful review. I'm glad you're enjoying them so much.