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January 19, 2025
The author and her 8 siblings, her mother Lou Ann Skeen Bullard, and her grandparents, Earl Donovan and Ethel Hanes Skeen, a small embroidered pillow passed, possibly made by Rose Ellen Skeen.
For many years, my brothers and sisters and I were raised to believe that our mother was an only child. We had just one aunt, on my father’s side of the family. No aunts, uncles, or cousins on my mom’s side. But that was not true. My mother had a sister that was kept secret...
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