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Finding her to find me, by Courtney Martin

Meditative Story

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The Sound of My Grandmother's Hearing Aid

Courtney's grandmother was a big, ambitious thinker. As a girl she longed to escape small town life etally. She would make a different kind of escape. Her thinking problem flared at the end of high school when she went back to texas with her aunt for nine months. When she returned,. she wasn't the same girl. My search for my grandmother leads me to the many places where her thinking problem flared, mental institutions. I get a list from my parents. Make phone call after phone call. Some no longer exist, many destroy records after a decade. Finally, i find just one in pueblo that says they have a record on her and will send it to

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