Ever since I can remember, there were 4 people in my life that made basic training look, taste and feel like paradise. And you can stop here if you really don't want to know what the 50s, 60s and 70s were like living with drill instructor parents, an older sister who wanted you dead and a younger brother hell bent on making your life miserable. Spoiler alert. Writing is my way of telling the truth. Let's start with this: See anything wrong here? According to this, my supposed grandmother was Clara Fralinger, yet her daughter made us believe her real mother was Mary Fralinger. Furthermore, since the three female Fralingers who were sisters and daughters to Mary Fralinger, they also weren't my Aunts, they were my great aunts. Sounds trivial? Not until, in 1973, you get a phone call that your grandmother, Mary Fralinger had passed away. If she was really 80 at the time of the 1940 census, she would have been 112 years old when she passed away. When sup...
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