My First "Real" Car


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Growing up in the country on a farm, I had driven tractors and trucks ever since I was knee-high to a grasshopper.  In fact, I don't recall when I didn't drive.  My first "real" car--even though it belonged to the family, was a two-toned Bel Air Chevrolet.  The body was a...

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My first car


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At about the age of four, when we lived at 1728 Engle Avenue, Norfolk County, Virginia (now the City of Chesapeake), I would walk to the end of the road closest to Military Highway and wait for Daddy to come home from work. At that corner was a little convenience grocery...

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My First Car


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When I was a teen, I didn't even own a bicycle let alone a car. I had to borrow my younger sister's bicyle and that wasn't an easy thing to do. It was attached to her hip!  I was twenty years old when I first learned to drive. I was married...

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DIANE JOLLEY ADAMS Turning Points of Life - Introduction


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Teachers, the Bronx, my Childhood.


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As a child I lived in a tenement building at 548 Fox Street, near Southern Boulevard in the South Bronx, with my younger brothers and parents. School wasn't far away-- PS 25, at 811 E. 149th Street. My mom walked us to school in the morning, and I looked forward to...

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Chapter 6 - Trusting in the Lord


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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE “Whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.” (Proverbs 29:25). Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt...

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Chapter 1 - The Miracle at Birth


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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE “And again, I exhort you, my brethren, that ye deny not the gifts of God, for they are many; and they come from the same God. And there are different ways that these gifts are administered; but it is the same God who...

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Chapter 14 - The Death of My Parents


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Chapter 13 - The Church’s Sesquicentennial Miracle


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Chapter 11 - Promptings of the Holy Ghost


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Chapter 10 - Prayer in the Everyday World


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Chapter 9 - Equal To Our Challenges


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“If men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. … if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.” Ether 12:27.   Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table...

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Chapter 8 - Understanding Faith


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Chapter 7 - Healing from Leukemia


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Chapter 5 - Blessing of Scripture Study


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Chapter 4 - Knowing my Husband


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Chapter 3 - My Conversion


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Chapter 2 - The Blessing of Repentance


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Dust, Sweat, Tears, and a Mixed-Up Birthday


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In the rousing title song of the 1930’s musical “Oklahoma,” the cast sings of corn waving as high as an elephant’s eye - growing “right up to the sky.”  They conclude this joyous testimonial by exuberantly shouting “Oklahoma. . . .  OK!”   Good theater, and it may even have been true...

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Dear Diary.... June 13th, 1964 and the Beatles concert.


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Normal 0 false false false EN-AU X-NONE X-NONE The Beatles concert last night was fantabulous !!!! We all wagged school yesterday (12th June) to stand in the crowd outside the Adelaide Town Hall, in our school uniforms, where they were welcomed to Adelaide by the Lord Mayor and Bob Francis who...

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