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Summertime Thoughts: Storing Salutations, Ironing Shirts, and Saving Buttons

Summertime Thoughts: Storing Salutations, Ironing Shirts, and Saving Buttons
Greeting cards from over the years, full of memories, now being displayed in shadow boxes. Anita L. Sherman
Anita L. Sherman
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It’s officially summer, and in Virginia, this sultry season started off in typical Southern style—hot, hot, and hotter.

For several seasons, I’ve been in decluttering mode. Summer is no different, except that the heat seems to make it more challenging. Somehow, there’s now a hazy mirage hovering over my piles.

Anita L. Sherman
Anita L. Sherman
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Anita L. Sherman is an award-winning journalist who has more than 20 years of experience as a writer and editor for local papers and regional publications in Virginia. She now works as a freelance writer and is working on her first novel. She is the mother of three grown children and grandmother to four, and she resides in Warrenton, Va. She can be reached at [email protected]
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