Mandy Flynn

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Ending brings new beginning

‘Come in,” a deep, low voice mumbled from behind the closed bedroom door and I turned the knob and slowly pushed it open to reveal my first born, now a teenage man child, propped against pillows and watching television, a computer on his lap.

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Miss Mary’s teachings on Mama said

Who originally wrote it, I don’t know. But I know where my copy came from. It’s been folded and re-folded a couple of dozen times, read and re-read when I needed a chuckle or wanted to make someone else laugh.

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Tobacco spitter short on decency

We interrupt this column for an important announcement about common decency.

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You can’t doll up devilish cows

I saw a sign in a store once. Not a sign, really, but rather a little slip of paper taped to the side of the cash register. I was buying some gum.

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Hair’s to silent suffering

Somewhere in the Bible it says that God knows every hair on our heads. Comforting, it is, but I have to wonder — does he know about the freakishly long scary ones that appear out of nowhere in the most obscure places and continue to come back time and time again no matter how often we yank them out?

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Friend passes at 105 years

A friend died last week, left this life on a beautiful Easter Sunday.

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Is that ‘Jaws’ music I hear?

Why you need a cell phone out in the ocean and other things men don't seem to understand.

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I’ll take ‘baby food’ for $200, Alex

It was, in my opinion, awkward.

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Laws that no longer apply

Call me a rebel. I wore white and it’s not even April yet.

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Hometown boy does us all proud

‘Do you know him?” my sister asked and I paused, but only for a moment.

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