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09
May

Meet My Mother, One of the Strongest Women I Ever Knew

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Meet my late mother, Alethia. She was born in 1939 to a single mother who was blind and could not keep her. Her mother, Elizabeth, gave her away to her aunt, Charity. This photo was taken circa 1956 at the height of segregation in the U.S. The sweater she was wearing is turned on the […]

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07
May

An Old Portrait of a Grand Lady, My Matriarch

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My mother, a grand lady in so many subtle ways. Mary Locke Davis Swayngim, 5-13-30 to 5-4-2014. She was our matriarch and here she is before she married the love of her life, a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, Don. They met in Albuquerque, NM. She was a graduating co-ed from UNM, he was […]

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