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Recently Posted American Stories
3 year old photographer
Elizabeth and Bob Williams bought their son Robert a toy camera. He preferred his dad’s. Robert’s father was a freelance photographer. He started submitting Robert’s pictures with his own. Time and again, Robert’s pictures were the ones that were chosen. The editors had no idea the man behind the camera was 3 years old.
Bubble Gum World Record
Brett Nichols was just another face in the crowd, until one day he started blowing bubbles. It put him in the Guinness Book of World records.
Lives Lost
Four little girls were murdered in an Arkansas school yard. The tragic event had been updated for days. I thought it was time to remind viewers that there was more to this tale. Looking at a school year book one day, gave me an idea: Our children are like library books with a due date unknown. These lives stopped at the start of their story. But their stories live on in friends who can tell them. Why not get students together to talk about their classmates? Those murdered children were more than what happened to them.
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