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10.17.2009 at 1:03:50 AM in say what

jenjen Writes:

Infant in a blissful moment after rare overt affection from Mom. Out of nowhere, older bro hits me in the head...hard, Crying, confused, afraid. First of many acts of violence I've lived thru in life

Josie Writes:

My mom got out of the shower & wrapped in her towel. My drunk dad chased her down the stares and grabbed her with both hands and threw her against the wall. I was 2 - she laid there crying & naked..

barb Writes:

...falling down the steep steps from the second floor to the first of my house. They weren't carpeted. Only had a rubber covering. I somersaulted and it should have hurt, but it didn't! I wasn't 2.

Valerie Writes:

1960 almost 4. Trip from Wisc to Miami in station wagon. OJ in a plastic orange. Saw Mermaids & glass bottom boat at Weeki Watchi, Fountaineblue in Miami, got a snoot full of salty water in the ocean.

Dawn Writes:

Visiting my grandpa in the hospital just before he died..we had coffee together & he gave me some of those little jelly packs-I thought they were the coolest! Still miss him-40 years gone. I was 3.

Susan Writes:

My 1st birthday party. I was sitting on the floor w/cake in front of me. Every time I would try to touch it all my aunts would scream! So I kept doing it!! I have the picture.

Pattie Writes:

I had a dirty blanket when I was little-it smelled bad too. 1 day my Nana washed it & I cried! My mom & Nana rubbed it on the hallway floor to try to get it dirty for me but it didn't smell the same

olivia Writes:

being in the little miss gordon county pageant at age 5-standing on an old wooden stage with hot lights shining on me wearing a quilted dress with a fever and running off stage-no, i didnt win

JO Writes:

feelings of terror & fear while lying in crib & father molesting me. I remember the shadows of the crib bars.

lori Writes:

1971. 2 yrs old. burning a finger by sticking it into a cheese bubble on the edge of a toasted cheese sandwich.

Carol Writes:

First day of Kindergarten. Wonderful teacher - but she looked like a witch to a 5yr old. I ran to the "cloak room" and still can see Mom's legs as I looked out under the coats and she coaxed me out.

Boy's Ma Writes:

Kindergarten....singing with my teacher as she played the guitar, very happy memory.

Joanne Writes:

my mom giving me a new coloring book and crayons when I was 4. She sat and colored with me while dad worked with new friends putting up pink poodle wallpaper in the bathroom of our new house - 1961.

suzi Writes:

A dream I had I must have been 4 or so, of an elephant being in my yard, when I lived outside of Savannah Ga. I ve had that dream several times in my 44 years. Funny thing is Im a lifelong democrat

AnneMarie Writes:

We lived in the Ivy Hill Apts. in Newark NJ. I was about 3 and we had a beautiful black girl as a babysitter. She had a red transistor radio and I heard the Beatles sing "Love Me Do". I was hooked!

deb Writes:

i was 2. my grampa died & my dad carried me into the funeral home. i looked down at the casket but i don't remember what i saw. i don't remember him @ all. just that day. my only memory of being 2.

Joni Writes:

Throwing up on my Dad while as he was holding me while watching "77 Sunset Strip."

jen Writes:

Riding on my dads motorcycle around the backyard when I was around 6 or 7.

Jan Writes:

My mom taking me to kindergarten orientation. I couldn't wait to start school.

deanna Writes:

Telling my mum it wasen't fair that the birds got to play outside in the rain and I could'nt!

Peggy K. Writes:

Moving to a new house my parents had built. Age 3. 1952

skidioo Writes:

church pew..sitting next to mom..holding/snuggling her doughy arm

barb Writes:

This is the second memory. The curving staircase and the upstairs hallway in my grandparent's house. The first memory is still too sad for me to tell. Some people should just never have children.

amelia Writes:

a stark cold place with white floors, square concrete pillars and flurescent lights.it was the VA hospital lobby. i was going to visit my dad dying of cancer (i was 3 and it was 1975)

Andy Writes:

Ro, I was around 4 yrs. old my sis was 9 and our mom got us all dressed up and took us to a studio and had our pictures taken. I still have that picture on a nite stand next to my bed...Priceless!!!

bobbie Writes:

My mom being mad at me, yelling at me making me very sad and then meeting me in the hall to apologize.......

Marney Writes:

riding my tricycle away from home for 1st time, watching kids play - front tire fell off sidewalk and my neighbor Lloyd saved me became a sub grandparent, I was 3, - 1st vivid memory

mb Writes:

Sunday nites: bath. tv dinners on metal trays. wild kingdom then wonderful world of disney. So cozy. My brother, mother and me. A three-way family.

Nancy Writes:

My baby brother needing to get his tongue cut for being tongue tied. I was worried they meant cutting it off!!! I was 3. Talk of his circumcision also was a traumatic memory..lol strange memories

Robin Writes:

I remember standing in my crib and my mom and another lady being there.

Kathie Writes:

Standing in my playpen. My mother was ironing. On TV, someone was taking the oath of office. I think it was probably LBJ.

sue b Writes:

My sister & i were sitting in our cribs,supposed to be napping, she pulled the head off her doll and fluffy stuffing came pouring out. I somehow remember knowing that she shouldn't have done that.

Donna Writes:

I remember my dad taking me to the candy store. He would give me a brown paper bag & tell me to get as much candy as I wanted. I loved it!

Linda Writes:

I can remember when I was three yrs old. The meter reader came & went down in the basement. Our dog Ginger stood between my mom and I, and just waited for the guy to make a wrong move. He didn't.

carole Writes:

My aunt margaret holding me in the doorway of her house. We were waiting for someone. I was about 3. We had an amazing connection. She died soon after that but I still think about her. She was filled with love.

joaniev Writes:

mom taking a picture of me and my older sister with our new baby sister on our lap - my older sister got to hold her head, I had her butt - I was very upset!!! :)

Tracy Writes:

Sitting in my stroller about 3 years old watching my mom pin the clean clothes to the clothes line. I miss that fresh outdoor smell on my clothes and sheets. Nothing like it.

Erin Writes:

At my sitters, when I was 3, we all had the chicken pox. Jason Bimbo had them head to toe. I had 9. I felt robbed.

KJ Writes:

Watching a friend of the family, Margo, clean a toilet at my families home. I loved Margo and strangely enough loved cleaning toilets!

Mark Writes:

When JFk was assassinated. I was 1-month shy of 2. I remember my mom crying and I asked her why crying? why crying? At that age, seeing my mom cry wasn't right...

Mary Writes:

Bouncing up and down on a couch on our front porch and crashing my head through a bay window. I was afraid my dad would be very mad. I asked my mom to shut the curtains so he wouldn't notice!

Katy Writes:

I was 2 and we moved to a new house. The 2 little boys next door came over to check us out. Their names were Bruce and Keith. I thought they said Tooth and Teeth. Called them that for years.

Chris Writes:

just under 2 years old .. my mother pregnant with my little sister and me feeling her tummy for a kick

paula Writes:

i remember alot from when i was very young.. i was a baby and had to be rushed to the hospital in the freezing snow.. bright lights in my face and hospital smell.. was scared and just wanted mom

amy Writes:

My grandfather beating my grandmother who was the world to me. I was 2 or 3. Terrified. Still sick when I think a bout it. Changed who I would be.

Sharon Writes:

The smell of Mom's skin.

deb Writes:

i was about 2 and my mom and me took the train to cali and i remember parts of the train ride...

Stephanie Writes:

Another man being in my house and then my mom taking me away from my dad and sister to go live with him. He beat her and eventually we left. Didn't see my dad again until I was 7.

Donna Writes:

My Dad holding me in his arms and walking me around the house cuz I was sick. I think I was 3-4 years old. He is 79 and I 52. I still need him.

marie Writes:

My mother changing my sisters diaper when her belly button thing had just fell off.

Coby's Mom Writes:

My 4th Birthday. My mom's friend gave me a manicure set. I felt so grown up.

Ter Writes:

Age 3 splitting my head open after hitting it on a bed frame chasing my lil sister cause she had my pocketbook filled with Hershey Kisses Went to ER got stitches tied in a straight jacket....... :(

Lisa B Writes:

going for a walk in our neighborhood with my grandfather, parents, brother, and our neww puupy, wait, maybe it was going to the pound to pick out the puppy

Saphira Writes:

My big brother and I, 14 mo apart, shared a room with bunks. He would lean down from up top, his five-year-old white blonde hair toppling down towards me, like feathers; I'd run my fingers through it.

lynne Writes:

grandma & me at around age 4 putting salt in mom's coffee as a joke. grandma laughing her head off. mom-trying to act mad but laughing too. i miss ma ma. she always smiled.

tricia Writes:

i remember a tiny pink house in our yard, looking over at the darkened sliding glass doors, finding a ladybug and putting it in a walnutshell, saying i never wanted to grow up cuz you cant fly kites

Lynnie Writes:

At docs office, 6 months old. I've had this memory my whole life. Years ago I told my mother + she just couldn't believe it. She looked at me + said Lynn, u were 6 months old! I know how babies see...

Janet Writes:

Of having whooping cough & clawing the walls when I couldn't breathe. It scared my grandmother so badly that she got on the bus home. Doc said I needed 2 B in hospital, but it was full of WW2 vets.

KimberlyJoy Writes:

Hearing sleigh bells outside (Santa), being terriftied my Danish Grandmother would speak in her thick accent (??) & my baby brother coming home (adopted on paper but born in my heart). I was 4. Now 46

dave Writes:

True, honest memories of having my back rubbed while laying in my crib as a baby . I could sense when my Mom and Dad switched, because my Dad's pats were stronger and heavier. I can still remember.

Carole Writes:

I remember going through the front glass door to get to my dad. My arm went through the glass & I had 4 adults holding me down while my "Uncle" sttched my head & arm up-local ME pathologist.

Lacey Writes:

Age 2, my family moved from an apt. in Queens to a house in the burbs in Wayne, NJ. I remember going to the new house & eating fast food in the empty kitchen, 1966...no memory of Queens.

Terri Writes:

Three years old. I remember my mother bringing home my little sister from the hospital. I remember getting to hold her.

Rayn Writes:

Age 4 1/2. Watching JFK's funeral on my parents' black and white TV.

Barb Writes:

I was five years old. A beachball I was playing with broke the light above my head. Scar on my face for last 44 years.

saavoss Writes:

"Playing the drums" on mommy's pots & pans. I must have been 3 or something. Also, being bummed at the JFK funeral (on TV) cause they took off all my cartoons. I was too young to realize.

Jane Writes:

Sitting on my father's lap and I farted...he got disgusted and made me sit on the floor

Sarah Writes:

Many little things when I was 1&2, but distictly remember my Mom leaving for the hospital to give birth to my brother. I was 3. She had put her lipstick on 1/2 of her upper lip-1959. Labor&Lipstick??

judy Writes:

sitting at my grandfather's hospital bed so he could see the new mary jane shoes he bought for me...i think i was 2 years old.

Kellie Writes:

My mother walking out the door, to go to the store and not coming back. My dad crying. I was 4 years old.

cc Writes:

I was about 2 and we got a kitten and I loved it soooo much I locked me and the kitten in my room so I did not have to share her with my brothers.

Mimi Writes:

Getting up from my chair at the breakfast table, walking over & climbing on my Mom, and sitting in her plate of fried eggs & bacon (it was a Sunday). I think I was still in diapers :)

LovedSoMuch Writes:

Sitting on my daddy's lap, my head resting on his chest, a warm compress between us. He would rock me and try to comfort me during one of my frequent earaches .

Becky Writes:

47 years ago I was 3 sitting in a box before we moved.

ileen Writes:

Being in nursery school. I was 3 or just turned 4. I remember how the classroom was set up & the big green & beige squares on the tile floor

marianne b. Writes:

1937:5 yrs old. Move to house in Scarsdale NY. Still see the street as we drive up.Father died the next year & life was never the same. 4 of us & a wonderful mother. 8 named after her. Tears

T-Mizzle Writes:

I remember when we moved from 99th street and 2nd avenue to 92nd & 1st Avenue.... Mom says no way I could 'membr that cuz I was only 3. I have detailed memories of it.

amylyn Writes:

Christmas morning when I was three years old...white sheets with green daisies...my aunt and her girlfriend were still in bed and I asked my mom why they didn't have clothes on. My aunt still hides.

Carolyn Writes:

Four years old - someone knocking on door - mom and I upstairs peaking out front window. Never discussed but can guess now it was a bill collector. Mom dead 20 years now so can't ask.

Karen Writes:

Sitting on the stairs outside our apt, coloring a cat with a striped shirt - I think I was three.....

melissa Writes:

Sunflowers as big as trees, with their heads looking down at me. Still love sunflowers. Always will.

Holl Writes:

in the hospital nursery. my 2 year old sister and my dad looking at me thru the window. my sis asking my dad which baby was me. i can't explain it. i just remember it. my dad says it actually happened

Lisa in Mishawaka Writes:

Sitting on the floor near the kitchen table. Mom and neighbor were having coffee. I found my belly button. Bwahaahaa. I was about 3ish.

carol Writes:

Grew up on a farm. Had wood stove in kitchen. Came down to find a fawn by the stove in a dog food box trying to keep warm. Dad had found him alone in a field with the calves. I was 3. We bottlefed him

maryb Writes:

JFK killed. Lived in the Bronx. Mom watching TV. She let my brother and I outside (4 and 3). No one was around. I wondered why she would let us go out when the President's killer could hurt us.

Josie Writes:

My parents buyins their first home...I was 4 yrs old...vivid with images

Nancy Writes:

when i was 4i would fall out of bed wrapped in my blanket start to cry the last time it happened i look up to see an Angel standing in the doorway as tall as the door frame,i never fell out after that

betsy Writes:

being forced into the car of my nursery school teacher by mother to go to school. Screaming the whole time; I think I was maybe 2 1/2 and my sister was just born. I still blame her for all my issues

Vittoria Writes:

A trip to italy, was four years old, and had locked myself in the bathroom... was devastated because the key was jammed in the keyhole.

wendyw Writes:

jumping on my parents' bed w/my father in it & not getting in trouble - interesting since I haven't seen him for 35 years since he left when I was 5...

bonnie Writes:

My grandmother bought me a cake with a doll in the center and the cake was her dress, I couldn't stop looking at that cake. 3rd birthday cake

Kathleen Writes:

18 months old! I fell & broke my collar bone. Remember crawling 2 my father in his chair and a plastic tea set my neighbor gave me .1957!!!!

Debbie Writes:

breaking my arm when I was 3 and being upset that my Mom was taking care of my new baby sister and didn't come to help right away when I called for her

Jeanne Writes:

~4y.o. remember MLK assassination coverage on TV and then couple months later Robert Kennedy's assassination coverage. My mom 1 of 11 Catholic siblings very affected and bad things happen 2 good ppl.

Jenyoung Writes:

one of my earliest memories is this huge garden that my hippy parents shared with the neighborhood..I can remember playing in the dirt, digging for worms loving every minute of it...probably 3 yrs old

deborahE Writes:

being in italy with my mom and grandmother when i was 3.. i am 54

LSeel Writes:

I got lost at Montgomery W. and wouldn't tell staff my name. They announced on PA "will the mom of the little girl in black n white checked pants come to lost and found" I was 3 and mortified!

becky13 Writes:

Daddy taking me out of our flooded little house w/a blanket over my head in the rain to drive 30mls to my gndms hs where a drwned man was on her front bedrm bed.1948 fw,tx

JenM Writes:

This is a little fuzzy, but I swear I remember sitting on my mother's lap as a baby and feeling safe and warm,

sue Writes:

When I was 3 I cut my head and my doctor gave me 3 stitches without an anesthetic. It took several people to hold me down as I screamed my head off. I can still visualize the entire experience.

cree Writes:

2 or 3 years old looking down the basement stairs my mother saw a mouse and my father was down there lookin for it just remember freakin out

Alex Writes:

Mom was toilet training me. I was sitting on the toilet seat, facing the tank. I held onto it for dear life, fearing that I would fall in and get flushed.

Cathy Writes:

Two years old, falling down in my backyard and not able to walk. Dragged myself to the back door and screamed for my mother. Broken leg.

Rachel Writes:

Sitting in my baby stroller, pushing the wooden beads back & forth that wrapped round the front and tilting my head way back so I could see momma pushing me.

EddieMonkey Writes:

My grandma bathing me in kitchen sink & i proudly exclaimed"My mama smokes marijuana out of a pipe!"LOL Honest 2 God. Grandma knew- just didnt want me 2 go around repeating. it was in the early 70's

jan Writes:

I remember when my little brother peed on my mother when she was changing him. He died at age 1 month --I was a year and a half at the time.

Tess Writes:

Discovering peanut butter at age 5. I could not believe how wonderful this was and surprised it wasn't the dessert. I still think it's yummy and I'm 52. Jiffy ROCKS!

Melissa Writes:

Picking my new baby sister from the hospital, my Dad was driving & we hit all green lights. He said b/c my love is magic for my sister, the lights turned green so I could love her faster!

Liz in Texas Writes:

Going to the hospital and having to wait in the waiting room while family visited my great aunt. I'm told she died before I was a year old.

Anastasia Writes:

My mom shaved my head when I was 5. I had fine hair & she believed the myth that if you shave it, it would grow in thicker. Went 2 school wearing winter hat (it was summer) cause I looked like a boy.

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