Posted by Partlycloudy on October 1, 2008, at 13:47:36
In reply to Re: I had an Aha! moment yesterday, posted by sassyfrancesca on October 1, 2008, at 13:18:40
> That is wonderful. I had a 3rd grade teacher, who just turned 96!!! She played piano for silent films....how amazing.
That is amazing. My piano teacher used to bribe me with chocolate candies to STOP playing, I was so awful! To be fair, I was the last of the 4 kids she would teach in turn, so I think she was just anxious to get the evening over with by the time she got to me. She knew there was a cup of tea waiting for her at the end of the ordeal if she could only hurry me along.
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> She knew I loved ballet, dancing and singing, and used to let me visit her house and look at her daughter's costumes.......My ballet teacher was Miss Betty. She didn't have a last name that I knew of! She was always pushing me to reach beyond my comfort zone, and she was one of my most stalwart supporters when I was quite young.
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> A t told me that my "friends had become my family." I figure family----people who love and care for you; if we cannot find it from (blood) relatives, then we get it where we can
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> I vowed to be the parent I wish I had had. I did.
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> Hugs, SassyYeah, well I (and my sister) decided to skip having children of our own. Though I had the opportunity to attempt some belated parenting skills with my grown up step daughter these past few months. My heart still aches.
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