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<DIV>Thank you for sharing, Rebecca, you are most certainly a strong woman. We
are blessed to have you with us and I thank you for all of your contributions
and food for thought you give to FUUSM folks.—Brenda L.</DIV>
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<A title=women@fuusm.org href="mailto:women@fuusm.org">Rebecca Phillips via
Women</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 13, 2020 4:59 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=women@fuusm.org href="mailto:women@fuusm.org">A List
for the Women of FUUSM</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=bennphil@hotmail.com
href="mailto:bennphil@hotmail.com">Rebecca Phillips</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Women] April meeting</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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all,</DIV>
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am honored to know so many strong and wonderful women and to call you my
friends. Like most of us, I have engaged in reinvention.</DIV>
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1983, I was tired of my work as a management trainee in a corporate bookstore
chain in Tampa, had fallen in love with Marietta while visiting relatives in
Beverly, and packed everything I owned (or everything that would fit) into a 6x8
trailer and moved to Marietta to open Mother O'Riley's Books. Since I have
absolutely no business sense, that adventure lasted only two years, at which
point Elin Jones bought the store, transformed it into a downtown destination,
and ran it until 2003. The Marietta move brought me into contact with FUUSM
members, who quickly made me part of this community. It was through the church
that I landed my position at WVUP (then Parkersburg Community College), after
Jan Schlieper called to tell me that her husband had taken a position elsewhere
and the college would need an English Lit person. Maggie Meyer was acting
division chair, hired me, and I stayed for thirty years.</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: calibri, helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">The
next reinvention was traumatic and unchosen. In 2003, my husband (whom I had met
in a FUUSM discussion group on UU history) dropped dead of a massive heart
attack. I was 47, working lots of hours, checking in regularly with a variety of
elderly and/or emotionally and sometimes physically fragile relatives, and
adjusting to having a troubled teenaged nephew living with us. Adding sudden
widowhood to the mix was not easy, but the support of my church and college
communities carried me through.</DIV>
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standing.</DIV>
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<DIV>"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need"--
Cicero</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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