Turning 40: Friend or Foe?
Is this landmark birthday the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?
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Kennedy: Goodbye, friends. It’s been a great 46 years
Long after she retired from her job as a bank teller, my mother still counted out imaginary money.
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Life Stories: Years later, college player receives long-lost home run baseball
Max Riemer, a graduate of the McCallie School, played Division I baseball at the University of North Carolina.
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Life Stories: Boyd-Buchanan baton twirler set to compete at world championships in France
In most settings, 16-year-old Lydia Hughes might be the toughest person in the room.
Life Stories: Bold dove pair nests on a work truck in Ringgold
On May 4, Phil Spencer of Ringgold pulled up to his carport in his Chevrolet pickup truck. Two doves landed on the hood of Spencer's truck. They touched down gently on the hood and then cocked their heads and rolled their eyes to check out the driver.
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Life Stories: East Brainerd home-school student marked as rowing prodigy
Sydney Twitchell, a 17-year-old from East Brainerd, is tall with broad shoulders.
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Life Stories: Signal Mountain artist shares magic age for painting children
Amy Wetmore says the best time to have your child's portrait painted is when he or she is 4 years old.
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Life Stories: Erlanger executive turns to colleagues for life-saving care
Emily Niespodziany is 40, an age at which many people feel the first tugs of mortality: a sore elbow after a tennis game or the first mention of health screenings by a doctor.
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Life Stories: Apison man, 89, makes tattered Bibles look like new
Ron Vallieres, 89, can stand up for hours in the 24-by-12-foot garage workshop outside his Azalea-wrapped house in Apison.
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Life Stories: Hixson couple cowrite kids book on how to stand up to bullies
Husband and wife Dan and Betty Smith have a storybook family. They live in a storybook 1970s-era house with a storybook terraced flower garden in the backyard filled with peonies and iris.