Independence Day (United States)

  • Conversant program

    If it weren’t for people like Shawn, I wouldn’t be where I am today. You see, Shawn was a shy Penn State student of  the Horticulture department who wanted to volunteer his time. It turned out that the Foreign Student Conversant Program matched us together in our first year of college. That year as it…

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  • seeing daughter

    My father often went off to see his daughter, my half-sister. My brother tried to see his son from a previous marriage every few years or so (coast to coast). Now I found myself in the same situation: seeing my little girl whom I took back from the hospital 19 years ago. I am sure…

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