Unbeknownst to me at the time my dream girl arrived in the first batch on the first day.

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My very first goal as a young girl was to earn every Girl Scout badge in the book and I accomplished that goal!

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He's been in my life ever since the first day I met him in 1963, when he was my rehearsal pianist for 'Funny Girl.

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This gave me the ability to find an executive position with flexibility and autonomy, which helped ease the burden of guilt and pain when I first left my baby boy -- and later my baby girl -- to go back to work full time.

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That I misremembered that a girl in college had canceled our date after seeing my wheelchair a first time (when in fact she had long known that I used it) reminded me that I had long seen the shadow of disability where it was not present.

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