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Putting Pen to Paper

August 7, 2013 by whitedoe931 Leave a Comment
Handwritten

My mother has impossibly perfect handwriting – small, uniform, and neat. I could never forge her signature on bad report cards. She was an absolute stickler for good handwriting, and when I was a child, my sloppy letters must have irked her supremely.  She’d hover over my shoulder, remonstrating me for my illegible sentences and making me … [Read more…]

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