We told her that Aunt M is in her own apartment.
We told her that when she comes over, she would not always see her.
This day, however, Aunt M was coming over.
This day, her mommy told her so.

Aunt M make smoothie, my two-year-old granddaughter said with certainty.
There was so much more to her statement.
Aunt M will let me help her.
Aunt M will share it with me.

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The truck was in the driveway.
I have seen a truck there four times before.
This time was a bit different.
This time was the last time.

Our youngest daughter got her own apartment.
She has been out of college for two years.
She has a full time job.
She got her feet under her first and decided that now was the time.

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My iPhone does not recognize my fingerprint.
I followed all the directions.
I successfully added fingerprint one and fingerprint two.
It worked for a while and then it stopped recognizing it.

I cannot figure it out.
I has been annoying.
It is not that I am lazy.
It is just that feature works for everyone else in my family.

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We hired someone new to prune our bushes and lay mulch for us.
Everything looks lovely.
I looked down from my bedroom window and noticed it.
A bush, that had been planted only a few years ago, was dead.

We have three other such bushes near our living room window.
By now, they all should be budding.
By now, they should be showing signs of growth.
However, this particular bush was just dry branches.

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Easter was very different this year.
We were not able to go to church.
We watched the livestream of the church service in our family room.
There were no Easter baskets, since I never had time to shop before things shut down.

Yet Easter was sweet.
Easter was stripped of all the trimmings.
We focused on what Easter really means.
Not that the meaning got lost other years, just that the meaning was magnified this year.

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It is inevitable that a young child will occasionally have a bad dream.
Those dreams do not happen open.
However, when they happen, it is quite disconcerting.
Ask any mother who is awakened in the middle of the night and she will tell you.

Especially when the power is out because of a storm, a scary dream can seem even worse.
I would open the blinds so that the little bit of moonlight would shine into the room.
That little bit of light seemed to cast the bad dream into the shadows.
Into the shadows it went; right where it belonged.

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The story started out simply enough.
It got more unbelievable.
Except it wasn’t.
It really happened.

I know the storyteller.
I know the story is true.
I know my mouth widened as she told the story to its end.
I know she made me laugh in the telling.

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When I entered my fifties, I remember seeing the quiz online.
I don’t usually take quizzes, but this one was about heart health.
Knowing that women need to take care of their heart, I decided to take the quiz.
There were so many questions I could not answer because I don’t know my history.

At the end of the quiz, there was a link to the Cardiology Group of our local hospital.
I thought about making an appointment.
Even though I did just fine on the quiz, not knowing my history was a factor to consider.
I looked over the doctors at the practice and picked one.

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Entering 2020, I knew I had to make some changes to the frequency of the daily Whispers. This March will be eight wonderful years of writing Whispers, five days a week. When this post is published, it will be Whisper #2,050. That is an impossible task apart from the grace of God! Two granddaughters and […]

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It is still hanging there.
It is still high up in the tree.
I discovered it when we were eating dinner on our deck one summer night.
It was an extremely large hive.

I thought it was a honey bee hive and called our neighbor who is in the honey business.
He told us that is was a black jacket hive.
The black jackets covered the hive, high up in the tree.
I could not imagine how we would ever get it down.

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