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That Anna Simon taught her daughters, Gen, Louise and Dorothy, to embroider dresser scarves with a fine needle on metal hoops?

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That Genevieve Ehrenfeld crocheted the most beautiful and intricately patterned doilies well into her late 80s?

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That Frank J. Vybiral was wounded in action (WIA) while engaged in ground combat with German forces in the Ruhr Valley of Germany on April 12,1945?  He was awarded the Purple Heart Medal and the Bronze Star Medal for these actions.

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That a great big tombstone fell on top of Kenny when he was a little boy?  Louise ran all the way up from the garden to lift it off of him.

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That Uncle Russ Ehrenfeld raised and trained homing pigeons in his backyard on Malden Street for a good number of years?

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That Anna Simon, Gen Ehrenfeld, Louise Vybiral and a whole gang of women all belonged to a bowling league?  Louise thinks it was actually "duck pins." 

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That Aunt Ruth Simon, at a moments notice, can whip up one of  the best darn pies you've ever tasted?  And tell you how to make it, too!

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That Aunt Dorothy Bielski writes the most beautiful and heartwarming poetry?  Her notes are full of snappy fun-loving rhymes and touching sentimental verses all on the same page.

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That Aunt Teatie Simon kept in shape by walking 1 to 2 miles a day, her whole life?

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That Uncle John Simon served aboard a Destroyer, the USS AULT DD698, in the Pacific during WWII?

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That Uncle Tom Simon maintained a bountiful, terraced hillside vegetable garden for many years? 

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That Uncle Pete Simone had the most beautiful handwriting in the whole family?  He must have taken after his dad.