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    There Was a Time: Reminiscing About Childhood Days, Teenage Years, and Becoming an Adult
    There Was a Time: Reminiscing About Childhood Days, Teenage Years, and Becoming an Adult
    There Was a Time: Reminiscing About Childhood Days, Teenage Years, and Becoming an Adult
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    There Was a Time: Reminiscing About Childhood Days, Teenage Years, and Becoming an Adult

    By Teresa Gray

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    Going through the mud puddles after a good summer rain with your bicycle back then was a lot of fun, especially when you got up speed. But then you did not dare go inside the house with muddy legs and shoes.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJun 26, 2015
    ISBN9781490885674
    There Was a Time: Reminiscing About Childhood Days, Teenage Years, and Becoming an Adult
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    Teresa Gray

    Teresa Gray is from a small town in Tennessee. She grew up with four brothers and three sisters. This is her first book, and she hopes all who grew up in 1970s will enjoy reading.

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      There Was a Time - Teresa Gray

      Copyright © 2015 Teresa Gray.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4908-8527-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4908-8567-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2015909809

      WestBow Press rev. date: 06/25/2015

      CONTENTS

      1 The Easter Dinner

      2 The Curiosity of Teenagers

      3 Learning to Drive

      4 The Summer Job

      5 The Clothes and the Funeral

      6 Bus Ride and a License

      7 The Factory

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