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The top 100 rated stories were selected by the readers, the judges selected a Grand Prize story and a Runner-Up story.
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At the age of 12, my father, Gregory, installed his very first lock. He was hanging around his brother’s key shop when a priest came in needing …
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- Nominee: Gregory K.
- Location: New Baltimore, MI
- Entry Date: Jul 26, 2010
Michele began working for her employer in 2005 . She hit the ground running in the quest of becoming a stellar employee by slashing past data entry …
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- Nominee: Michele S.
- Location: St. Louis, MO
- Entry Date: Jun 09, 2010
I don’t have a heart-tugging story for you; or a tale of one overcoming enormous obstacles in the face of insurmountable odds. All I can tell you …
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- Nominee: Gary R.
- Location: Warwick, RI
- Entry Date: Jun 30, 2010
Tammie is a hard worker when it comes to everything. She started as a full-time mother, caring for three sons and a daughter. Tammie and her husband, …
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- Nominee: Tammra G.
- Location: Gainesville, TX
- Entry Date: Jul 09, 2010
Teresa grew up in a mill village. In her day, no one on the mill village aspired to a higher education, much less a little girl with an undiagnosed …
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- Nominee: Teresa L.
- Location: Chesnee, SC
- Entry Date: Apr 26, 2010
Ingeborg’s Song !
Watching through the barbed wire fence of the concentration camp, people stripping off their clothes, lined up and shot, …
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- Nominee: Ingeborg W.
- Location: Tampa, FL
- Entry Date: Jul 05, 2010
I don’t know how my boyfriend does it. Each morning that he works, he gets up at 5am, drives over an hour to work at the railyard for a 12 hour shift…
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- Nominee: Jim H.
- Location: Syracuse, IN
- Entry Date: Jun 17, 2010
I am writing this to give the world a chance to get to know an absolutely amazing woman.
My sister Cathi, She has to be one of the strongest women I …
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- Nominee: Cathi T.
- Location: Jacksonville, AL
- Entry Date: Jun 27, 2010
Deborah started off as a Cub Scout leader for her son’s pack, sharing the responsibility with her husband, Lloyd. When Lloyd went back to school two…
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- Nominee: Deborah F.
- Location: Nevada, TX
- Entry Date: Apr 27, 2010
When my grand-daughter turned three months old, her mother made the hard decision to move from Tennessee back to Alabama and moved in with me. My …
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- Nominee: Jennifer T.
- Location: Morris, AL
- Entry Date: Jun 30, 2010
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