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*1959 July Birthday on homestead

*1959 – 1960 Serious winter – Dad smiling on tractor

— In my mind, the mountain and my father were one — I never expected either one to save me.  But never did I love him like I love that mountain place.

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*1960 – May 7 – 4 of us all genuinely HAPPY! YAY!!!

*1959 June – Homesteader Sharon and the Hut

*1962 – Summer -Mother washing face after planting fields with dad

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I hope one of my younger brothers might write the story of the fire that happened in my father’s apartment — with both his Alaskan sons sleeping there — that my family members — and these pictures survived.  It happened long after I left home.

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