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1960s

Troll House

My friend Cathy and I like to carve out rooms for our troll dolls – or Wishniks as they were called in the 1960s – in rotten tree stumps in the woods. They were like natural dollhouses for these dolls whose hair was an unnatural […]

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My Aunt Theresa

July 9, 2022 My father had one sister and she was two years younger than him. She would have been 90 today. They grew up in the Depression, the children of Polish immigrants. My grandmother worked as a maid for a rich white woman in […]

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