tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21418726267439823742024-03-05T14:32:11.109-08:00J.B. McGeeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04700791610992420879noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141872626743982374.post-20285043127901393362014-12-08T13:15:00.000-08:002014-12-08T13:24:09.390-08:00Updates...You may (or may not) have noticed that I quit posting here some time ago. The time (and patience) it took me to make a blog post was more than I had. Even as I've tried to post this update, I've lost it twice, reaffirming my decision to break up with Blogger.<br />
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I tried Tumblr for a bit, but it's just not the same. I'll keep that piece of internet real estate along with this blog, but they will likely not be very active because I really wanted a place to talk to you, share things with you, and interact that was integrated with my website (http://www.jbmcgee.com) so you wouldn't have to track me down in so many places. Thus, I have a new blog that can be found on my NEW website! Let's talk a bit about that...<br />
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The most important thing about that website is on the home page. It's called a newsletter sign up. Many of you know that social media has changed the way you receive your information. It was never a good idea, as a business owner, to allow a third party to control how you and I communicate. A newsletter ensures that you receive information from me. You can choose to not open the email, delete it, or open it, instead of Facebook deciding if it's worthy enough to be "served" in your news feed. Please make sure you've subscribed. I promise I don't send emails out often enough to annoy you. If you find me annoying at any time, there is always a handy unsubscribe button at the bottom of every email.<br />
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Next, there are individual book pages now that feature samples on Wattpad (you don't even have to leave the site to read), the Spotify playlist for each book, the trailer, words of praise, and me reading you a popular quote from each book (I usually choose these from Amazon - the ones that were highlighted the most).<br />
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That new shiny blog has something special too. It features an excerpt from a new (and completed) short story that will be featured exclusively in the Pink Shades of Words Anthology. You won't want to miss this book. It features exclusive new content from so many of your favorites. I'll include a list at the end of this post. It will be available February through June. The best part is that all proceeds are donated to the Avon Breast Cancer Walk.<br />
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Lastly, I'm really excited about <a href="http://tsu.co/jbmcgee">Tsu.co/jbmcgee</a> and the opportunity to be able to interact with more people. Rather than Tsu.co being a public company and having to answer to stockholders like Facebook, they have allowed their users to be the stockholders, sharing 90% of the revenue with the content creators. I hope you'll join me there.<br />
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Please consider signing up to spread the word about Pink Shades of Words (if you're a blogger - and even if you're not a blogger, we'd appreciate you helping to spread the word when the time comes)<br />
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I decided to Google the quote to see if it was in other places. It wasn't one of the more popular quotes from Skipping Stones. In fact, I read it a couple of times and wondered if I had really written it. After I read it in context it all came flooding back to me. The scene, the words, the meanings.<br />
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In my search on Google, I came across a post called 365 Quotes to Motivate You in 2014. It was on a realtor association's website. I thought it was odd that a realtor's association would have compiled this list, and even more odd they would have included little old me. <br />
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I didn't believe it at first. I used the find tool to quickly find my name. I thought for sure that maybe there was someone with a first name as J.B. and maybe somewhere later there was a McGee. You know, sometimes they do that on Google.<br />
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No. It was actually J.B. McGee. The quote was one I immediately recognized as my own. It was sitting pretty in the #1 spot under the heading FAMILY. Above me, there was a quote in the other category by Lyndon B. Johnson and Oprah Winfrey. Below me, there were quotes from Princess Diana, Walt Disney Barbara Bush, and Michael J. Fox. <br />
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So I went back to Google. I kept looking in the search results and noticed that the title was actually <a href="http://www.inc.com/dave-kerpen/365-quotes-to-inspire-you-in-2014.html/10">365 Quotes to Inspire You in 2014</a>. It was originally written by <a href="https://twitter.com/DaveKerpen">Dave Kerpen</a>, a New York Times Bestselling author and social media guru. It was featured on Inc.com.<br />
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I am so honored that my words inspired someone enough to share them. Then to share them in such a list of people that I not only have looked up to my entire life, but aspire to be a fraction of what they are or were.<br />
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It's funny this was the quote chosen, though. I was really sick before Christmas. I was worried we wouldn't make it "home."<br />
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I remember telling my mom that I didn't care about anything more in the world than being with my family on Christmas day. That was all I wanted, my wish. Luckily, we made it.<br />
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Christmas morning, I found a lump in my breast and my side. I'm having some tests run next week and hope to know more. Things are pretty scary right now for me. My day yesterday consisted of two hours at the diagnostic women's center having mammograms and ultrasounds (I'm only 33). Today consisted of going to see my genetics doctor for a second opinion, then scheduling an MRI and more ultrasounds and a nice stick to get blood drawn.<br />
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SO when I came home and saw this post, it was a reminder of what's important. My own words inspiring me. My own words touching my heart. Here's the story how I came up with the quote.<br />
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When I was writing Skipping Stones, I kept talking about going home or I'd say back home. My husband, Chad, would laugh and say, "We are home."<br />
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I agreed, but I told him that Aiken was also home. <br />
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He told me I should pick a place to call home - that after 3 years - I should be used to this being our new home.<br />
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That's when I realized it. Home isn't where we live. It's not a physical place. It's not really Aiken. It's not Buford, GA. Home is where my family resides. Some of my family lives here, and some lives there. Whenever I'm at either place, my heart...my soul...is at home.<br />
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I'm thankful I got to go home - that the morning I found these pesky lumps (I'd rather have had coal) - I was able to hug my mom and dry my tears on her shirt. That she was able to tell me I was lucky - that everything but cancer runs in our family. I was able to get a hug from my sister, who reassured me, as well. <br />
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My dad reminded me that our family is lumpy, but in the good way. <br />
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My grandmother's smile, her hug, the feeling of her fingers tickling my back - that's medication that only home can offer.<br />
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This is turning into a bit of a novel, but I suppose I needed to write again. I hope you have a blessed 2014. <br />
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Thank you for making 2013 one of the best years of my life.<br />
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Happy New Year!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04700791610992420879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2141872626743982374.post-72714996400690675612013-10-31T11:26:00.003-07:002013-10-31T11:26:56.662-07:00Saving AlexI'm participating in <a href="http://nanowrimo.org/participants/jbmcgee">National Novel Writing Month</a>. The story I'm writing is <i>Saving Alex</i>. It will be a surprise release date. So be make sure you're following all of my social media to stay up to date with teasers, snippets, and the eventual release of this book. I read every review. I heard a lot of people saying they wanted to know more about Drew from <i>Skipping Stones</i>. On the plane on the way to Pittsburgh, I could see his story playing out in my mind like a movie.<div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;">They say there are five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Not everyone will grieve in this order, nor will everyone go through every stage. It’s during the stage of denial when Alex Hart meets Andrew Foster. He takes her one-step closer to acceptance: the stage when new, meaningful relationships are formed. The stage when the realization occurs that this is now the new state of normal.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Just when Alex thinks she is on her way to healing, she enters the bargaining phase. That’s the phase where you wonder what you could have done differently. You wonder “what if?” Specifically, what if the ones you loved hadn’t left you?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Leaving…this is what makes heading off to war so difficult and frightening for Alex. She knows all too well what it’s like to be the one on the losing end of life, which is why she’s made it her personal mission in life to save as many lives as possible. The extreme high she gets from treating trauma victims turns into Alex’s own form of therapy, or so she thinks.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">J.B. McGee was born and raised in Aiken, South Carolina. After graduating from South Aiken High School, she toured Europe as a member of the 1999 International Bands of America Tour, playing the clarinet. While attending Converse College, an all-girls school in Spartanburg, South Carolina, she visited Charleston often. It quickly became one of her favorite vacation spots. She met her husband, Chad, during Christmas break her freshman year, and they married in 2001 and she moved back to her home town. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">In 2007, she welcomed their second child, Jonah, and she became a stay at home mom/entrepreneur. In 2009, the found out their two children and J.B. have Mitochondrial Disease. In 2011, a diagnosis also was given to Chad. Please take a moment and learn more about Mitochondrial Disease. Awareness is key to this disease that has no cure or treatments.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">J.B. McGee and her family now reside in Buford, Georgia, to be closer to their children's medical team. After a passion for reading had been re-ignited, J.B. decided to finally give writing a shot. Broken (This Series), is her first book and first series. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ATLANTA, Georgia. — Survival Radio Christian Network (SRCN)
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line-up during the Monday 8:30 p.m. EST time slot. The show debuts October 7,
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hosted by bestselling
author J.B. McGee, The Light with J.B. McGee is a radio talk show designed to
provide hope and encourage people to harness the power of their light. </span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Our time in the shadows of life provide the stepping stones
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share my testimony and spread awareness about Mitochondrial Disease,” said
McGee, whose books are available at bookstores or online. “When I was offered
this opportunity, I knew that this was the beginning of a whole new area of the
light that has become my life.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Light with J.B. McGee becomes the 10<sup>th</sup>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SRCN President C. Nathaniel Brown welcomed McGee to SRCN.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The storm is easing up. These pop up summer thunderstorms can be scary. I know God isn’t an angry God. But sometimes I feel like storms are his way of just screaming at us. They are much like us. Our tears are the rain, our cries are the thunder, and the lightening is the sword stabbing us right where it hurts the most, setting us on fire. Nothing good comes from lightening other than the magical facade of it. It’s intriguing. It’s draws us in like a magnet. It excites us, yet scares us. It’s dangerous, yet entertaining. It’s all the things he was for me.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The club is regrouping and rebuilding from the mayhem known as the Russian Mafia. A hit is ordered on Tatiana, Storm, Winter, and Piper. Braxxon is out of reach while he helps Greg Cage deal with some dirty business. Tatiana’s egg donor reveals secrets that a thirteen year old Zig Zag was too young to understand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One night together making love until the sun comes up and these two are in too deep. But this is the Breakneck world, and sunrise brings gunfire and bloodshed. Time brings Winter’s abduction and brutal rape. Hazel’s guilt burrows deep, and she pushes everyone away. She is resenting herself for convincing Winter to enter this Breakneck world. She is resenting Pyro for ensnaring her heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What happens when you find the one person who completes you, and then life conspires against you? How do you set your grief and anguish aside? How do you pick up the shattered pieces, put those pieces back together again, and try to move on?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Katie and Tripp met on the playground the first day of third grade when Tripp tried to rescue Katie from Zack, her twin brother. A lifelong friendship that later blossomed into love began that day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Broken beyond her own ability to repair, Katie boxes her grief up and attempts to raise her three girls the best she can on her own. As time slowly passes, Katie relives her times with Tripp while struggling most days to even get out of bed. She is reminded of him at every turn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Zack is Katie's twin brother and was Tripp's best friend. Having lost his own love, he dedicates himself to helping Katie put her life back together. Throw in a mother-in-law who torments at every turn and poor Katie can't even find a chance to breathe, much less a desire to somehow search for tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the moment, I have a makeshift
office in my pantry! If need be, I can shut the door and cut off part of the
noise. I hope to have a more permanent space soon.</span><br />
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whom much is given, much is required.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Just a bit of nonsense. I am Kathryn
Anne, and my two sisters are Rebekah Elizabeth and Sarah Margaret. My husband
is Channing, and my son is Zachary. One of my daughters is Elizabeth, and I
still have to work my daughter Brittany into the book. Highlands is my most
favorite place in the world to go when my soul need refreshing. Last, but not
least, I actually had a great-grandma Tiddy!</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What does love feel like?</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Warm, fuzzy, secure, safe,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the lobby of the
bank that I worked in. I was on all fours under a Christmas tree tightening the
screws in the base. What can I say? Baby got back!</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you could take a romantic trip, where would it be?</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Any
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me away to wine and dine me.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you believe in love at first sight?</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Absolutely! Ask me
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Katie Mac is a simple country girl who likes to spend time with her hubba, hunka hubby, her three kids and her friends. She loves to cook and really loves to eat! During the spring and summer, you will more than likely find her outside puttering around in her garden. When the veggies start coming in, she will probably be sweating over a hot canner in the kitchen, canning all the goodies she is blessed with. Katie likes to hike and go camping, and as a Girl Scout leader, she gets to do this pretty often! On cold winter nights, you will probably find her wrapped in a warm blanket, lost in a good book, while sitting in her rocking chair on the front porch!</div>
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Katie was born and raised in North Carolina, and while she loves to travel, she can't imagine ever leaving the mountains that she has come to call home. Not a day goes by that Katie doesn't thank God for abundantly blessing her. He has been so good to her, and she is very grateful. She holds Jeremiah 29:11 very close to her heart and believes it with every fiber of her being. "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."</div>
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Katie loves flip flops, chocolate, sweet tea and dirt between her toes. As far back as she can remember, she's had a book in her hand. Reading has carried her to places she will never go. It has introduced her to people that she will never meet. When life is great and when it is rough, she's always been able to find a book to carry her through. She finally decided to write down some of the stories in her head (yes, be scared) and heart after dawdling around and wasting years dreaming. She hopes you enjoy reading those stories as much as she loves writing them!</div>
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There’s one last stone in our pile. I glance down at it. “You want it?” I ask.<br />
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He shakes his head. “No.”<br />
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I glance into his brown eyes. “You want me to do this one?”<br />
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“Yup.”<br />
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“What if I mess this one up?” I reach down and pick it up. “Like the whole bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, full count, two outs...”<br />
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He smiles. “I guess we’re about to find out how you do under pressure.”<br />
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I don’t care about the stone. I don’t care if I can skip it, or not. I just want to kiss him again. “You made the game up...”<br />
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“I did,” he quips proudly.<br />
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“Then you can change the rules.”<br />
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“I’m listening.”<br />
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“No matter what, I get another kiss. Either way it’s a prize.” I shrug.<br />
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“Ha. A prize either way. What’s your reasoning?” He chuckles.<br />
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“Either the prize for winning...skipping a stone, or a consolation prize for choking.”<br />
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“Deal.” He moves back and plops into the overgrown weeds. I’d call it grass, but I’m not sure I see any blades of grass. It’s mainly clover, wild onions, and dandelions. “How about if I give you a bigger kiss if you do it? That way you still have some incentive to do your best.”<br />
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I glance back over my shoulder. “Deal.”<br />
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I replay the instructions he gave me earlier. I turn so that my side is facing the water. I put the stone just right in my fingers. I look back to him, holding my hand out. “Like this?”<br />
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As my head turns, I freeze because it’s not Drew sitting in the field. It’s my father. As if freezing and not moving will make this real. It has to be a figment of my imagination. Our eyes are locked and he smiles as he gives me a thumbs up.<br />
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I feel a tear trickle down my face. I’m paralyzed, unable to move.<br />
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