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“My mom said that when I was 11 years old, I picked up a wine cooler at a family picnic and downed it in front of her....

"I overdosed on fentanyl three times, but Narcan brought me back from the dead each time. I started using drugs when I...

“I learned how to play chess in the state penitentiary. Guys there played it all day to pass the time and keep their...

“I painted this mural in the RV Taylor Housing projects with kids who live here and some from the Strickland Youth...

“My parents were remarkable people. Mother was born at home in Pittsburgh. The doctor wrote a prescription for...

  “I grew up in Indianapolis. In 1965, my husband, Terry, joined the FBI.  We lived in New Orleans for 20 years,...

“I grew up in Down the Bay at Texas Street and Washington Avenue in Mobile. I am 90 years old and came up during the...

In the summers, the Moore children went out early in the morning to work in the fields of their family farm. Wearing...

Bernard: We met at Vigor High School. I was a senior, and she was a junior. Dinah: I wouldn't give him the time of the...

“I grew up in California and ended up in Mississippi with my husband about a year ago because it was cheaper to live...

“I turned 85 in March, and they had Hilry Trawick day in Andalusia. I’ve lived here all of my life. My mother and...