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Who Is Augusta Angeline Anyway?

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Who Is Augusta Angeline Anyway?

 Who is Augusta Angeline Anyway? If you’re like most people, you probably assume Augusta Angeline is a real person. Well, she’s not. My name is Ann Gilligan, and Augusta Angeline is a combination  of my ancestors and a couple of cats! And like everything else, it all comes back  to my childhood memories and my roots. It all began when I was very little, maybe 4 or 5. My father happened to be friends with the superintendent of French Creek Game Farm in Buckhannon, West Virginia. A game farm is sort of a small zoo. Anyway, Fred, the superintendent, had a...

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Happy Mother's Day, Thanks Dad!

Happy Mother's Day, Thanks Dad!

   You might be wondering why I'd be writing about my dad for a Mother's Day blog, but it'll make sense soon enough. Like almost everything in my life, it's all connected to my childhood memories. This is a tale of two very special mothers, an awesome aunt, and my home state of West Virginia. Before Alzheimer's Disease took my dad's mind, he was a truly brilliant man. He also had a killer sense of humor. And he happened to pick an awesome woman to be my mom. One of her favorite stories of him was when he first asked...

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