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		<title>Little Girls:  Then and When</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not!  I started blogging almost two years and 200 posts, and 200,000 words ago.  I created Once a Little Girl for two reasons:  to share my life experience with my kids and grand-kids and to give myself a warm-up for my real writing, my novel.   Subscribers from as far away as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncealittlegirl.com&amp;blog=11765161&amp;post=2172&amp;subd=oncealittlegirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I got to be a grown up girl, but not quite ready to believe it, I got a job for the summer.  I was in charge of a water survey for the Huron County Health Department.  My job was to ask businesses, those businesses who served water to people, some questions: Do you have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncealittlegirl.com&amp;blog=11765161&amp;post=2100&amp;subd=oncealittlegirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a little girl, I loved stories.  First, I listened to Grandpa&#8217;s and Dad&#8217;s and Uncle Merle&#8217;s, and Uncle Frank&#8217;s and Uncle Gerald&#8217;s stories.  Mom read me stories; some lasted weeks because she just read a chapter a day.  I started to make up stories of my own.  Sometimes I did that with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncealittlegirl.com&amp;blog=11765161&amp;post=2094&amp;subd=oncealittlegirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrations fit for a King: Giving from the Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often wonder why so often families have such a hard time getting together for the holidays.  Somehow all five of Dad&#8217;s brothers and his sister got together over the Christmas holidays.  Of course, they did all live within sixty or so miles of each other.  Still, I think it was important to them to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncealittlegirl.com&amp;blog=11765161&amp;post=2090&amp;subd=oncealittlegirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wishing and a-Hoping,  Hoping and a-Praying:  Your Dream Can Come True</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a little girl, I couldn&#8217;t draw worth beans.  I colored pictures like nobody&#8217;s business, but my luck at real art was, well, really, really horrid.  You know that poem about the little girl with the curl.  For sure, that was me.  When I was good, I was really, really good:  making up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncealittlegirl.com&amp;blog=11765161&amp;post=2081&amp;subd=oncealittlegirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stuck in the Mud Santa</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just like any little girl, I could hardly wait for Christmas.  I studied the Sears &#38; Roebuck and Montgomery Wards catalogs daily and made up my list for Santa.  The things I wanted could fill Santa&#8217;s sleigh up all by itself, so I knew only some of the gifts I asked for would arrive.   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncealittlegirl.com&amp;blog=11765161&amp;post=2070&amp;subd=oncealittlegirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sauced by Cranberries</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most holidays had several things in common when I was a little girl:  lots of company, extra church time, presents, and no school.  We had little holidays like Memorial Day, those were more like snow days for spring time, just a parade, no company, no special food and no extra cleaning, and no church either.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncealittlegirl.com&amp;blog=11765161&amp;post=2063&amp;subd=oncealittlegirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother always complained about being cold.  Not me.  I went barefoot all year.  Never outside, of course.  Still, I never wore socks unless Mom needled me until I relented and put them on.  She needled me about staying warm a lot:  wear your snow-pants, put on a hat, get your boots on, and most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncealittlegirl.com&amp;blog=11765161&amp;post=2041&amp;subd=oncealittlegirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to lots of funeral and visitations when I was a little girl; that&#8217;s what you do  to pay your last respects.  People got really down in the dumps at funerals.  Sometimes people said stupid things like &#8220;doesn&#8217;t she look so peaceful&#8217;, or &#8220;he just looks like he fell asleep.:  Sometimes people just say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncealittlegirl.com&amp;blog=11765161&amp;post=2034&amp;subd=oncealittlegirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paying it Forward</title>
		<link>http://oncealittlegirl.com/2011/11/04/paying-it-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once I started working at The Grill, I met a lot of people; people way different from me:  a super tough-cool girl who had her own brand-new blue Mustang, The Gang, and grown men who had too much to drink.  Once Mom and Dad came in.  Of course I knew them.  Still, having them as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncealittlegirl.com&amp;blog=11765161&amp;post=2026&amp;subd=oncealittlegirl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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