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Rewind 19 years- April 1st, 1988. It was a dark and stormy day…just kidding, but really is was stormy and dark all day. I was 8 almost 9 at the time so that meant my sister was 13, Glen 11 almost 12 and Page 5. Wow Page was only 5- that’s Tater’s [...]

Today is Thanksgiving and it’s bittersweet. It marks the beginning of the Christmas season!! And, it marks the beginning of another Christmas without Yang. Yang was the Christmas GEE!! She loved Christmas, the whole Christmas season!! She made it fun and exciting for the rest of us. Anything we [...]

Every year me and gee had the tradition of playing these ridiculously easy versions of Christmas songs on the piano.  I would play the ridiculously easy melody part and Yang would play the little teacher duet part, that was a bit harder, but not much.  It was pretty stupid to play these easy arrangements of [...]

Sunday was always a really nice day for us.  We never had a talk about how we wanted Sundays to go, they just went that way.  They were nice, that is, after church.  We’d all come home and immediately change clothes, pitch in making lunch or dinner, and then commence the family sac out.  I’d [...]

Yang and I had this stupid game we used to play at night.  I think it was probably something Yang made up to get me out of her hair when she was trying to do something- like pop her zits or read or whatever else she did that didn’t involve… well, me.  The object of [...]

Halloween was always so fun when we were little, but afterwards came the real fun.  The HOLIDAYS!!  That meant Thanksgiving and Christmas plays with Yang, Page, and yours truly.  I can’t remember very many specific things about our plays because we did so many, but they were always good!!  Yang would write the script, play [...]

For years, the house next door had been a rent-house.  Soon after Page was born in January of 1983, a couple with two daughters moved in.  Actually, the two girls were his from a former marriage, but his current wife had adopted them.  It wasn’t long before their problems resulted in divorce.  I know this [...]

At the behest of my family, I’ll try to recount the incident known as “Peachy Peach.” Three weeks after returning home from serving a mission for the Church I moved back to Provo to attend Brigham Young University. Yang, Nessa, and I stayed at a joint called Lookout Pointe. Since we were all poor, we [...]