Six-Word Memoirs
Our Siblings,
Ourselves
JO KEILLER, 64, Brownsville, Vermont, retired school counselor
Who else remembers your
childhood dog?
SHERRY ZORZI, 57, Zachary, Louisiana
Computer consultant
Never near enough,
never far enough!
KEVIN KENZENKOVIC, 55, Manchester, Connecticut
Finance manager
Siblings: Learning patience
outside bathroom door.
LARRY LADD, 66, Jacksonville, Illinois
School psychologist
Rival at 10,
sidekick at 60.
KATHE KOKOLIAS, 63, Colonie, New York
Registered nurse
Four spirits with
the same hangups.
BARBARA BELKNAP, 62, Juneau, Alaska
Former executive director, marketing institute
I’m fat, sister’s lean.
God’s mean.
BARBARA ZALOOM, 66, Fort Pierce, Florida
Novelist
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Larry Smith, who selected these memoirs, is the
founder of the Six-Word Memoir project and coeditor,
with Rachel Fershleiser, of a new book, It All Changed
in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers
Famous & Obscure.
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