Barbara Garnett

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“With Snow Comes Warmth” by Barbara Garnett

Submitted to Contest #140

With Snow:Comes Warmth The year was 1973 if memory serves me right.  My mother and I had arrived in Texas on my 6th birthday, February 3rd.  I had been living in California, before that, Louisiana.  We moved every year of my childhood at least once, sometimes two or three times in a 12 month period.   I must have known that I had family other than my mother; but to muse over such trivial thoughts, would have seemed rather petty to me at that age. I am not sure that I ever thought about it before I was six.  My...

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You can take the girl out of Louisiana but you can not take Louisiana out of the girl. I was born in Metairie, just outside of New Orleans in 1967, and spent most of my life yearning to return. I now reside in Texas with my husband and our last two daughters. All our girls, five to be exact, and our grandchildren live near so I’ve stopped yearning for Louisiana and am content where I am.