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    Inspirational Stories: Set 3
    Inspirational Stories: Set 3
    Inspirational Stories: Set 3
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    Inspirational Stories: Set 3

    By Paula Freda

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    A New Set of Inspirational Stories. Non-denominational True stories, autobiographical & biographical. Nostalgic, Inspirational, How-to, and some humor. Inspirational Stories, Set 3 contains: The Way It Used To Be ... When We Were Young ... Care-Givers, Guardians of Human Dignity ... She Wore Gardenias In Her Hair ... Embarrassing Moments ... What If? (All Stories Rated "G" for General Audience)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaula Freda
    Release dateOct 24, 2010
    ISBN9781452316222
    Inspirational Stories: Set 3
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    Paula Freda

    About the AuthorDorothy Paula Freda, is also known under her pen names Paula Freda and Marianne Dora Rose. Herbooks range from Fiction and Non-fiction Adventure, Romance, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Poetry, Articles, Essays and How-to-Write Instructional complete with Lessons and optional assignments.Homemaker, mother of two grown sons, and former off-the-desk publisher of a family-oriented print small press, (1984 thru 1999), The Pink Chameleon, that she now publishes on line, Paula was raised by her grandmother and mother, and has been writing for as long as she can remember. Even before she could set pencil to paper, she would spin her stories in the recording booths in the Brooklyn Coney Island Arcades for a quarter per 3-minute record. She states, "I love the English language, love words and seeing them on display, typed and alive. A romantic at heart, I write simply and emotionally. One of my former editors kindly described my work, '...her pieces are always deep, gentle and refreshing....'" Paula further states, "My stories are sensitive, deeply emotional, sensual when appropriate, yet non-graphic, family fare, pageturners. My hope is that my writing will bring entertainment and uplift the human spirit, bring a smile to your face and your soul, and leave you filled with a generous amount of hope."

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      Inspirational Stories - Paula Freda

      INSPIRATIONAL STORIES

      SET 3

      The Way It Used To Be

      When We Were Young

      Care-Givers, Guardians of Human Dignity

      She Wore Gardenias In Her Hair

      Embarrassing Moments

      What If ?

      Smashwords Edition

      All works included in this book,

      along with photos

      Copyrights 1980 - 2010

      by Dorothy Paula Freda

      All rights reserved.

      The Way It Used To Be

      by

      Paula Freda

      The other night I sat watching a rerun of the Carol Burnett Show. One of the comedy sketches was set in an old apartment with tall windows and high ceilings. The setting brought back memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood in which I grew up.

      During the fifties it was a fashionable neighborhood, clean,-neat and safe. The older generation boasted that once a New York City Mayor had resided on one of its picturesque avenues.

      I remembered the six-family apartment houses, clustered between the small cape cods. There were few, if any, front lawns in the old neighborhood, but the backyards, which ran the length of the entire block, were the country garden paradise of each owner, flourishing vegetable patches and flower beds and fruit trees, and arbors laced with rambling grapevines; and cats of every size, shape and color. Dogs were few.

      Conveniences in the home were also few, with the bathroom mostly still a shared commodity and consisting solely of the toilet bowl and the overhead flushing apparatus.

      Though long out of use, gaslight fixtures continued to perch on the plaster walls which were bordered by intricately worked molding. Ceilings were high, made of tin, and ornate in design. The windows were tall and wide, their wood-frames nearly always covered by dozens of previous coats of paint which matched the plaster walls. Nails hammered into these walls always stood a fighting chance.

      My grandmother, widowed since the first World War (she never remarried, saying she never found a suitor as wonderful as grandpa) lived on a limited income. Rent was $45 a month with leases a debatable issue until rent control arrived. We had four comfortable sized railroad rooms, with the larger room in the front (or the back, depending on what the dweller considered it to be). Two windows overlooked the

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