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    Further Over the Hill
    Further Over the Hill
    Further Over the Hill
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    Further Over the Hill

    By Gay Howard

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    A combination of short essay and poetry geared toward the population that's past puberty... way past.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Educational Publisher/Biblio Publishing
    Release dateApr 22, 2013
    ISBN9781622490790
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      Further Over the Hill - Gay Howard

      Further Over the Hill

      By Gay Dell-Howard

      Published by Biblio Publishing at Smashwords

      www.BiblioPublishing.com

      www.EduPublisher.com

      ISBN:

      Copyright © 2013 Gay Dell-Howard

      Cover photo Serendipity by Pati Shambaugh,

      taken on the Atlantic Ocean coastline near Rye, NH.

      Gay Dell-Howard

      C/o Picking Up The Pieces

      911 City Park Ave.

      Columbus, Ohio 43206

      Phone: 614-443-9988

      Cell: 614-204-5364

      Email: quiltpati@aol.com

      Table of Contents

      Role-Reversal

      Then & Again

      Night Lights

      6 A.M. On A Snowy Sunday

      Beach-Walk

      Sweet Sorrow

      Miracles

      Down-Sizing

      Solitaire

      Spirit Love

      Cemetery Tonka

      The Fearsome Foursome

      Test-Tube Flowers

      The 'Early' Proverb…

      Hotcakes

      The Obits

      Passport Photophobia

      Fragments

      ROLE-REVERSAL

      My daughter and I have a role-reversal. She looks after me like I once looked after her. You take the duffle-bag with the wheels, she will say, "and I'll carry the sewing machine! Or she will ask, Did you remember to bring your blood pressure pills? I have some hearing-aid batteries in my purse, do you need one?"

      My son and I also have a role-reversal. "Mom, do

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