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Playing with my great grandfather when I was two, one of my sisters and I would hang locust shells on his nose and ears while he sat in a chair by the back fence watching the neighbors chickens peck. Also remember my dad watching TV the evening Kennedy was shot, it was his birthday and one week before my 3rd.
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I can’t remember much before 4 ,but one of my brothers said he remembered 9 days before he was born,said mom was setting out sweet potatoe plants and he would pull them up ,I never did really believe him
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Two of my earliest memories are of my dad stepping out into the yard with a 12 gauge and blasting a squirrel that had been raising hell in our attic and taking me out to the garage to see a deer he had shot. Don't recollect how old I was but we moved out of that house when I was 4.
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I remember living with my grandparents while my mother was fighting cancer in the hospital. Of course I didn't know anything about cancer, just that my mom left me with grandma and grandpa. I guess I was one or two years old (There's no one left alive that I can ask). I remember my grandfather would carry me on his shoulders and show me all the pictures on the walls up close. Eventually, I forgot about my mother, and when she came back to get me, having defeated cancer, at first I didn't know who she was. Took me a few minutes.
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I remember being with my dad when he was building a well house. Must have been about 3.
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When I was about 3 I ended up damn near losing my arm in one of those ringer washing machines.
My earliest memory was visiting every day with a woman at the hospital whose baby was in an oxygen tent. She gave me a BIG bag of candy the day I went home. That happened to me too, they told me not to fuuck with it.
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Coincidentally, hanco, one of several earliest memories was when I discovered my grandfather dead of a heart attack. He had apparently felt ill and gone out to the privy on the farm, where he was seated when I found him. I was three.
Same farm - Dad was blowing stumps with dynamite and right after one blast I ran up and fell into the hole headfirst. I can smell the smoke of the dynamite to this day. I was two, I think. I remember many things about that farm and my early years, too many to recount here. Found my grandmother dead in that same house, 20 years later. She had a heart attack also. If I make my birthday in a few weeks I will have outlived all my parents and grandparents.
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Coincidentally, hanco, one of several earliest memories was when I discovered my grandfather dead of a heart attack. He had apparently felt ill and gone out to the privy on the farm, where he was seated when I found him. I was three.
Same farm - Dad was blowing stumps with dynamite and right after one blast I ran up and fell into the hole headfirst. I can smell the smoke of the dynamite to this day. I was two, I think. I remember many things about that farm and my early years, too many to recount here. Found my grandmother dead in that same house, 20 years later. She had a heart attack also. If I make my birthday in a few weeks I will have outlived all my parents and grandparents. Good luck to you.
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I remember my mom and sister stopped on the road and got a turtle for me, I was 5 and thrilled beyond belief.
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I remember the night the Dr. came to the house to deliver me.....
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I remember my mom and sister stopped on the road and got a turtle for me, I was 5 and thrilled beyond belief. 😂🦫
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Being on a swing at a park about 4 yrs old. And a schnauzer type small dog going back and forth barking at me while I was being pushed by my mom. The dog was friendly, just excited to hear a kid laughing at it while swinging.
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When I was about 3 I ended up damn near losing my arm in one of those ringer washing machines.
My earliest memory was visiting every day with a woman at the hospital whose baby was in an oxygen tent. She gave me a BIG bag of candy the day I went home. That happened to me too, they told me not to fuuck with it. I went to help my aunt do clothes one time and started putting clothes in the ringer. She said hold on let me show you this. When you get your fingers in there pull this lever to release it so you can get your fingers out. I decided to go help my uncle in the garden instead.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Grandpa:the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Dad:son you have 2 choices for supper eat or don't eat.
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Walter Cronkite evening news casualty figures from Vietnam Around age 5 or 6 in 68 or 69.
Neil Armstrong on the moon.
And the worst ever..........
Lawerence Welk around age 5 at the mandatory dinner at the grandparents every week.
No wonder I grew up hating 99% of the people on this planet.
Lawerence Welk subjugation as a young kid..........
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I hated Lawrence Welk too!!!
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I remember my great grandfather reading to me. I remember the book cover and him reading. Not sure how old I was.
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My earliest memory is loading 375 H&H ammo on an old C&H press. I was 4. Ok, that's a lie. It wasn't 375 H&H....it was .270.
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When I was about 3 I ended up damn near losing my arm in one of those ringer washing machines.
My earliest memory was visiting every day with a woman at the hospital whose baby was in an oxygen tent. She gave me a BIG bag of candy the day I went home. did the same with one of those washers, just had to stick my fingers in it, lol they had to take it apart to get my arm out.
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I hated Lawrence Welk too!!! Anduh one, anduh two .
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