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SIX-WORD MEMOIRS
What Was I Thinking?
KAY RUHE, 63, Huntingburg, Indiana, retired elementary school teacher
Forgot brisket in trunk.
Car stunk.
FRANCES SCHUBE, 50, Dunwoody, Georgia
Art-festival organizer
Located my
childhood sweetheart.
Shouldn’t have.
JACKIE GLOVER, 67, Abilene, Texas
Licensed vocational nurse
Widowed too young.
Remarried too soon.
DIANE MACDOUGALL, 56, Shelby Township, Michigan
Coding-quality specialist
Skipped college.
Aged.
Learned from life.
BEVERLY SHROYER, 65, Burleson, Texas
Retired municipal-utility manager
Lent friend money.
Believed him.
Waiting....
CAROL GRIFFIN, 66, Alliance, Ohio
Secretary
I should have danced all night.
ANN KOSTER, 72, Dallas, Texas
Former magazine researcher
Larry Smith, who selected these entries, is the founder of the Six-Word Memoir project and coeditor, with
Rachel Fershleiser, of It All Changed in an Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure.
