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40 Years After They Saved Me From Stupid

40 Years After They Saved Me From Stupid

by Ann Lee Miller | Nov 25, 2016 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Stuart FL

The six of us peered into each other’s eyes, trying in short seconds to excavate the girls we’d known when we were sixteen from the fifty-six year old faces staring back at us. Then we flung ourselves into hugs. Wonder and words and laughter and very old trust...
A Village, a Vamp, and a Muddied Soul

A Village, a Vamp, and a Muddied Soul

by Ann Lee Miller | Nov 18, 2016 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Stuart FL

I pedaled faster, away from my stepfather’s El Patio Restaurant, darting a glance over my shoulder. My fingers clenched the money pouch with three hundred and six dollars against the handle bar. Two p.m. sun cooked my scalp and shoulders. I pumped harder, my progress...
Mary Jane, The Catholic Church , and Me

Mary Jane, The Catholic Church , and Me

by Ann Lee Miller | Nov 11, 2016 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Stuart FL

I climbed into the back seat of Reid Ferr’s GTO behind St. Joe’s, the fifth kid in. Catholic Youth Organization had just let out. I thumbed through my brand new paperback copy of Good News for Modern Man. Before we’d gone a block, Joey Ent, sitting shotgun, lit a...
Freedom Doesn’t Come for Free

Freedom Doesn’t Come for Free

by Ann Lee Miller | Oct 21, 2016 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Stuart FL

Mom scooped us from the sailboat we lived aboard in Miami, grabbed a new husband, and tossed us into a new town. I landed on cat feet in Stuart, Florida, because I wanted freedom from Dad and our life on the Annie Lee almost as much as Mom did. But freedom came at a...
Bridge Jumping and Junk Pile Regrets

Bridge Jumping and Junk Pile Regrets

by Ann Lee Miller | Oct 14, 2016 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Stuart FL

I peered over the side of Cato’s Bridge where Aida Gale and had jumped off seconds ago. Fear fluttered in my chest. My toes gripped the edge of the concrete girder, my hand super-glued to the guardrail. Kelly Gaston hopped over the rail and glanced at me. “You’re such...
A Bus, A Boy, and a Bestie

A Bus, A Boy, and a Bestie

by Ann Lee Miller | Oct 7, 2016 | Blog, Just The Facts Fridays, Stuart FL

I eyed delicious, and definitely off the market, Danny Pignato across the school bus bench. The bedlam around me faded like I’d landed in a movie. The hour between Stuart Middle School and Jupiter was a long time to avoid all that cuteness. Too long, it turned out....
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