In the last of the Old Stories series, George recalls how he met his wife on a blind date and married her within three months before shipping back out with the marines.

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In the latest Old Stories, Ceil relives a rat race between a customer’s wife and mistress that she had to do while working at her clothing boutique.

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In this Old Stories, Helen shares her experiences as a fashion coordinator for Escada, preparing for exotic shows and working for some of the best dressed in Dallas.

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In the latest Old Stories, Patsy revisits the times when the farmlands where she lived in Washington would snow over and her dad would harness the horses to a sleigh to take her to her one-room school, picking up the teacher along the way.

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In this Old Stories, Laverne recalls her time working on the Dallas school board, where she overcame a little bit of implicit gender discrimination.

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In this Old Stories, Roberta tells about how almost every night, when her husband would get back from the late shift at work, they used to go to their favorite drive-in late-night-dining spot and share fried chicken and french fries.

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In the latest Old Stories, Sam tells the story of spying on a female boarder having a middle-of-the-night adulterous tryst at his house when he was young.

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In the latest Old Stories, Morris remembers the day he was held up at gunpoint at his pharmacy in Manhattan.

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In the latest in the Old Stories series, Shirley recounts her years when she received her own education as a door-checker in the dining hall at John Carroll University in Ohio.

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In the latest Old Stories, Ernestine tells the story of how, as a teacher in small-town Tennessee, she got a lesson from her children on picking strawberries under the hot sun.

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