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Comment from Gloria ....
This is such a delightfully, heartwarming story, Mav, even though there are elements of sorrow the overall tone is warm.
Back in the day a genuine silver dollar was worth at least a hunert bucks and Mrs. Falcon's heart was priceless.
This is a terrific vignette and being darling never entirely disappears, it just gets spread a little thinner.
Best of luck to you in the contest with this gem.
Ange
reply by the author on 10-Dec-2017
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This is such a delightfully, heartwarming story, Mav, even though there are elements of sorrow the overall tone is warm.
Back in the day a genuine silver dollar was worth at least a hunert bucks and Mrs. Falcon's heart was priceless.
This is a terrific vignette and being darling never entirely disappears, it just gets spread a little thinner.
Best of luck to you in the contest with this gem.
Ange
Comment Written 10-Dec-2017
reply by the author on 10-Dec-2017
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Thanks a billion, Ange. Mrs. Falcon was still there decades later.Through all the ownership changes, they always kept her. To this day I don't know her first name. Joe the Butcher was still there too, my insane mom's closest and dearest friend as she would say when especially insane.
I'm so thrilled you liked my little story. A great memory. Really the town wasn't that small, times were just truly different as much as that makes me feel from a different era. Oh well, maybe I'll see if they buy a darling old man trying that. :))
Mav
Comment from nordicgirl
You still have quite a bit of darlingness left and it shows here in this soooo sweet story. I can just see upu and those pretty eyes melting that check out gal. Hehehe.
Mrs. Falcon worked there forever, didn't she? Local celebrity. What a nice memory and it really was just like that. Loved this. NG
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You still have quite a bit of darlingness left and it shows here in this soooo sweet story. I can just see upu and those pretty eyes melting that check out gal. Hehehe.
Mrs. Falcon worked there forever, didn't she? Local celebrity. What a nice memory and it really was just like that. Loved this. NG
Comment Written 08-Dec-2017
Comment from Sharon Haiste
I think this is a good entry for the True Story contest.
This story was fun.
The picture is cute and a good match.
Well done and good luck to you with the competition.
Sharon
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I think this is a good entry for the True Story contest.
This story was fun.
The picture is cute and a good match.
Well done and good luck to you with the competition.
Sharon
Comment Written 08-Dec-2017
Comment from apky
A beautiful story, Michael. This is basically the story of our humanity crippled to nought at the alter of material acquisition and some artificial "worth" to the money you need to acquire.
There are people so rich they could feed and house all 7bn of the world's population for a couple of decades. But they never will, and still want to make more money. The result? The "worth" is either devalued or the prices have to go up to keep up...
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A beautiful story, Michael. This is basically the story of our humanity crippled to nought at the alter of material acquisition and some artificial "worth" to the money you need to acquire.
There are people so rich they could feed and house all 7bn of the world's population for a couple of decades. But they never will, and still want to make more money. The result? The "worth" is either devalued or the prices have to go up to keep up...
Comment Written 08-Dec-2017
Comment from write hand blue
I enjoyed your reminisce about a time long past. It stirred a memory of when we went to visit well off relatives in Blackpool UK . My sister and I were taken to a little sweet shop and told to help ourselves. You can imagine the bag we each left the shop with. Can't do that these days the selection is not there.
I wonder it you had enough to pay. But that's not important, it's the memory that counts. I like the layout and presentation. The story is bound to be popular with us oldies. LOL
Good luck with the competition.
~Mel~
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I enjoyed your reminisce about a time long past. It stirred a memory of when we went to visit well off relatives in Blackpool UK . My sister and I were taken to a little sweet shop and told to help ourselves. You can imagine the bag we each left the shop with. Can't do that these days the selection is not there.
I wonder it you had enough to pay. But that's not important, it's the memory that counts. I like the layout and presentation. The story is bound to be popular with us oldies. LOL
Good luck with the competition.
~Mel~
Comment Written 08-Dec-2017
Comment from Mystic Angel 7777
This meets the contest requirements splendidly. I thoroughly enjoyed this as I could relate to all the treasure we could purchase in our youth for pennies. Kids today don't believe there was ever such a thing as penny candy. You may have a small typo:
"with little damage to property or fellow shopper" - should this be 'shoppers'?
One question I have is there seems to be something missing between the second to the last and last paragraph as I assume regardless of the total she let you take the entire cart load but you don't make that clear. All the best in the voting and thank you very much for sharing it.
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This meets the contest requirements splendidly. I thoroughly enjoyed this as I could relate to all the treasure we could purchase in our youth for pennies. Kids today don't believe there was ever such a thing as penny candy. You may have a small typo:
"with little damage to property or fellow shopper" - should this be 'shoppers'?
One question I have is there seems to be something missing between the second to the last and last paragraph as I assume regardless of the total she let you take the entire cart load but you don't make that clear. All the best in the voting and thank you very much for sharing it.
Comment Written 08-Dec-2017
Comment from c_lucas
Even in the old days, a dollar had its limitations. This is a believable story with a touch of humor. This is very well written with a smooth flow of words, making for a good read.
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Even in the old days, a dollar had its limitations. This is a believable story with a touch of humor. This is very well written with a smooth flow of words, making for a good read.
Comment Written 08-Dec-2017
Comment from Dolly'sPoems
This is a delightful story and so warm and sentimental. The value of money to an innocent child to go out and buy goodies! So lovely. My granddaughters expect £10 notes these days! How times have changed, a wonderful tale that touched my heart, love Dolly x
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This is a delightful story and so warm and sentimental. The value of money to an innocent child to go out and buy goodies! So lovely. My granddaughters expect £10 notes these days! How times have changed, a wonderful tale that touched my heart, love Dolly x
Comment Written 08-Dec-2017
