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Carole Moore on Domestic Violence . . .

It was the kind of evening when tee-shirts plaster themselves to one’s back and sweat stings the eyes, the kind firefighters weighted with turnout gear come to dread. For there’s only one thing worse than a working fire on a sultry Southern night, and that’s when someone’s inside that fire – dead or alive or somewhere in between – and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.  (Continue)

Carole Moore writes about Preservation:

Surrounded by a fleet of other, currently unused Naval ships, the USS Iowa, one of the largest battleships ever deployed by the U.S. Navy, sits mothballed in a place called Suisan Bay, about 30 miles northeast of San Francisco. Visitors to "the mothball fleet" can look, but are not allowed to board the ship, whose massive guns once lobbed explosives as heavy as a Volkswagen from a distance of 22 miles. (Continue)

Carole Moore writes about Motherhood:

A friend once said she believes Hell is whatever one fears the most in life. If that’s true, then my own personal version would be passing eternity playing Candyland.  (Continue)

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