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EFGO Podcast S2:E3 “Back in the Day!”

By EFGO Storytellers Marc Abbott & Mary Shea   https://open.spotify.com/episode/2zb1Suo6b5HjixQXazqucG?si=p-MIlbIjSge4m1iiK_htaw Listen to S2:E3 Join us as we travel back to the days of first loves and best friends. With stories from…  Image by Rawpixel.com STORYTELLER… MARC ABBOTT Braces, awkward growth spurts, and falling in love for the very first time – Oh middle school! Marc shares all of this and more in his funny, touching story “Dad’s Help.”   And… STORYTELLER MARY SHEA Mary and her best friend Sue are like Lucy and Ethel, always up to something and stick by each other no matter what. I [...]

2021-11-18T17:19:02-05:00April 15, 2021|Comments Off on EFGO Podcast S2:E3 “Back in the Day!”

A Story About Finding My Best Friend

By Every Family's Got One Founder -- Barbara Herel   The dismissal bell sounded and the hallway instantaneously filled with the sights, smells, and the carryings-on of the cool, sort-of-cool, and not-so-cool tweens and teens of junior high. Hence the “smells.” (My 13-year-old self landed squarely in the middle of “sort-of” and I’m fairly certain I smelled AOK for the most part. My worst offense being: a heavy hand with the Jean Nate After Bath Splash.)  That’s when I saw her walking my way… Green-ribbed turtleneck, short sleeves Black and green plaid bell-bottomed pants Blue eyes   The blondiest of [...]

2019-11-18T11:38:33-05:00February 19, 2019|10 Comments

A Story About a Girdle and a Best Friend

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Mary Shea Most people remember their first kiss. I remember my first girdle. It was 1964, I was 14-years old and my best friend Sue and I were invited to Peter Murphy’s birthday party. My party dress was beautiful, but a little tight around the waistline, so my mother bought me a girdle. On the night of the shindig, I was excited and tried to get ready quickly. But the girdle that was holding me in... was also holding me up. I found that squeezing into it and then struggling to [...]

2018-07-16T14:13:26-04:00July 18, 2018|7 Comments
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