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  • Everybody loved my maternal Grandpa, Jens C. Andersen
  • Super-sizing your expectations: Has it happened to you?
  • Cemeteries: Where records of our collective histories live
  • My brief attempt at a career as a rock music columnist
  • Tragedy has the cruelly ironic capacity for instantly transforming a young person's ephemera into their legacy
  • Dear kids, your dad wishes you a happy future
  • Personal history isn't limited to those people in your family tree
  • Fond remembrances of a true Railroad Man from Council Bluffs
  • Remembering Jim Pollock: A good friend, gone too soon
  • Remembering Dad on the 97th anniversary of his birth
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