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Lovely, TAPS! I'm sure your mother would enjoy seeing that you have shared her writing here. 
posted by
adnohr
on January 18, 2014 at 3:39 AM
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Your Mother's writing just hit my heart and make me long for more. Romantic emotive but very real as well. Thank you for sharing some more of her words.
posted by
Kabu
on January 14, 2014 at 7:39 PM
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TAPS
That was a very enjoyable post, loved reading about the coql mines and was in one of our in Nova Scotia.
posted by
WileyJohn
on January 14, 2014 at 7:13 PM
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excellent writing your mother wrote. i thought black lung disease as she described the coal miner's plight. i recognize one of the prophets from the old testament... and the trees of the field will clap their hands... in her writing toward the end of that portion you displayed here. you come from a very deep family... no pun intended.
posted by
Carolyn_Moe
on January 14, 2014 at 5:25 PM
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TAPS
PThis part of the American labor story needs to be heard love.. BC-A, Bill’s R®st
posted by
BC-A
on January 14, 2014 at 2:55 PM
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Beautiful
Excellent description and explanation of the life that the miners led. You have a very rare gift for gathering the best of what is written and combining it into something beautiful.
posted by
ForeverPoet
on January 14, 2014 at 10:02 AM
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The stories those coal miner's could tell...I myself have never met a coal miner.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on January 14, 2014 at 9:52 AM
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Between your mother and you,
your words open the mind and the heart to a reality most of us have never visited even in our thoughts.
posted by
Ciel
on January 14, 2014 at 6:15 AM
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Wow! That was brilliant!
I love the way you tied the story together. I don't know how anyone does that job, it's like going into the grave every day. But coal fires were cozy.
posted by
Pat_B
on January 14, 2014 at 4:24 AM
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