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Tara Deacon's avatar

This was soooo relatable girl!! Wow

"dad’s motto was ‘don’t look for a fight, but if you or anyone else starts something, you’d better finish it,"

That was my mom's motto 🤣😂🤣 LOL and better believe it me and my brothers lived by it LOL

So true nobody could pick on my little brothers but me 😆!! Seriously nobody!!

This was like going back I'm time to days where everything seemed alot simpler!! I won't lie...I miss the long phone cords...knowing where your friends were at by the massive pile of bikes outfront!! Moms giving out Popsicles and freezies to all the neighborhood kids on a hot summers day!!

I miss packing a lunch and spending the entire day hiking the mountains with my friends LOL only coming back home when the street lights came on!! I also miss the treeforts, tire swings and neighborhood pine cone wars with the other children 😆

And building bike jumps and testing them out like we were crash test dummies LOL

Making our own inventions and using our imagination!! Learning to dangerous shit safely 😆 if I could go back i would go back!! Even for all my crappy truamas it would be worth it for all of those things!!

And so much more!! This out of the 3 articles you shared with me is my favorite!! You brought me back to that moment!! Riding a bike with no hands LOL feeling like I could fly again!! 🥰😍🤩 girl you are so incredibly gifted as a writer!! Love this so much

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Cori Bren's avatar

My face is leaking🥹. Soul mates…if you’re an 80’s kid ya might like The Wander Years. Maybe I should publish some of these in a collection.🤷‍♀️

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Tara Deacon's avatar

Are you kidding i looooooved the wonder years show!! That was awesome!! That was the best show with the best cast ever!! Fred Savage was one of my childhood crushes 🤣😂🤣 along side Mr Clean, the Jolly Green giant, and Devon Sawa!! We are totally soup mates 🥰😍🤩 yeah you should publish a collection!!

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Cori Bren's avatar

The Wander Years was a post I cowrote with Deborah Hewitt. 🤪 I do remember the show too I loved it!

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Tara Deacon's avatar

Oops LOL sorry Cori 😅 definitely i will have to look for it LOL

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Lacey Bryan's avatar

As a “blood for acid” niece (and while irrelevant, I’ll also include- an avid Bob’s Burgers fan) this describes our roots in such an amazing light. So much “mom-sense” as Linda would say.

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Cori Bren's avatar

Thank you for commenting Lace! I’m looking forward to finishing this ‘trilogy’ with a post about our children and their children.

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John R Weaver's avatar

Cori-

I just love reading your stories. I can read between the lines; knowing what is fiction and what is your life story. Keep posting your stories. Your writing skills keep me wanting more, and I'm not known as a big fan of reading. Thank You!

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Cori Bren's avatar

What a kind and thoughtful comment, John. I don’t think you could know how much your wonder at my writing means to me. It’s even more special that you take the time to share your words with me!

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Wendy Elizabeth Williams's avatar

Bren, well-written and straightforward stuff! My family was the opposite, I was the youngest of three kids, only girl and I came through late...Mom was three months into her 39th year when I was born. I was smaller than everyone else and almost always the smallest one in class.

That is one of the fascinating things about family, we are all different and that is the journey we all have to travel, love it or not. Visceral, blunt, gnarly, grimy and yet the tribe we grew up in means something to us, flaws and all. Thank you for sharing this adventure...and cheers to Sigourney Weaver battling the Alien with acid for blood...not a forgettable woman. I sometimes feel like her...but...I'm not.

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Cori Bren's avatar

Thank you SO much for sharing this about your family. There were times when I resented my upbringing but when I realized it made me who I am it’s like the sun came out and never stopped shining.

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