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Have you known
someone that will never be written about in a history book,
but made a profound difference in your life, or the
lives of others? A nobody that was a real somebody?
This is the place to tell their
story. Your submission will be reviewed and appear
within a day or two.
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Are you lucky enough to be able
to take more than a picture of your pet to
work? Reportedly,
it's becoming more common. Even employers that aren't
ready for a fulltime pet force allow pets on the 4th Friday in
June, for the international Take Your Dog to Work Day.
In 2008 that's on June 20.
CBS Report on pets at work
Annual Take Your Dog to Work
Day
Fido - good attendance record |
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Pug
magnet is available on our
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During World War II, women who worked in factories
became patriotic stars, with help from a winning ad
campaign featuring Rosie the Riveter. The
sudden attention no doubt amused women who had
been working in factories for decades. |
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Dot
She was the oldest of seven children, her youngest
sister just two years old when Dot, age sixteen, quit
school to go to work on an assembly line in a
factory. The idea was to help her struggling
family. Instead, Dot fell in love, became
pregnant, married and was abandoned by her husband,
thus adding an extra child to the overfull
household.
Dot never went back to
school. Her mother cared for her daughter
while Dot returned to work at the factory. She
would work on an assembly line until her retirement
at age 65. Four years after the birth of her
first daughter, Dot repeated nearly the same sequence --
pregnancy, marriage, daughter, divorce. This
time the father impregnated another woman too, so
divorced Dot to give his name to the other child.
He remained married to the other woman, who bore 3
more of his children, and he and Dot remained
intimate for three decades. There would be no
other serious romantic relationships in Dot's life.
Her oldest daughter was
also abandoned by her first husband but found
success in a second marriage, as did Dot's second
daughter. |
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Dot expected
little from life. She taught Sunday School at
the United Methodist church for many years, enjoyed
television, listening to musicals on the record
player and reading Readers Digest condensed books.
She socialized with a few coworkers and spent time
with her daughters' families.
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She liked to
fish, and travel within the U.S. |
Her beliefs were simple and conventional. She
abided by the Golden Rule and was always a little
surprised when others didn't do the same.
From her I learned that
racism is evil, that it is unkind to
ridicule
people who are different, and other lessons about tolerance. Along
with matters of decorum, such as that ladies "use"
the restroom, but that it is never acceptable to be
any more specific than that.
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