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Month: October 2025

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Teaching through generations

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Five daughters, one son–two families

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Grandmother’s Flower Garden Quilt by Ruby Neal

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Cora (Jordan) Parrish was surprised that “a daughter of her Aunt Leora didn’t know how to cut up a chicken”

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Clabe Wilson’s gun safety rule

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The day we had lunch with a car club

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Iowa’s Dallas County Freedom Rock® Anniversary

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3 favorite reads in 2025

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Dan Wilson’s Capri Bell from WWII

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BookBub, Goodreads, or Amazon

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Patricia Furstenberg’s moving comments about Leora’s Letters

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Dad began farming with horses

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Umbrella weather!

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New: a spiritual thriller packed with sci-fi schemes and gadgets

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