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Subject:RE: Tech Writing: The Second Generation From:"Sharon Burton-Hardin" <sharon -at- anthrobytes -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:23:01 -0800
Not my father's footsteps, but interesting, nevertheless.
My father married 3 times - I am part of the last sibling group. My sib
group knew about the others, but for reasons that were always fuzzy, we had
no contact with the other 2 sibling groups.
After my father died in 1986, I was interested in finding the other
siblings. After my mother died in 1999, my sibling group agreed I would
look. I has the name of several of the other siblings, but no idea where
they might be, what their mothers full names were, nothing.
I found one set of siblings (1 brother and one mentally ill and lost in the
Midwest) about 2 years ago. He has lived in the LA basin for 20 years, as
did we. He had no idea where or what happened to our father - and have we
had interesting discussions about our father! And he has done well adapting
to the idea that he has at least 6 other siblings, the last 2 still lost
(Barbara Spencer, born about 1934 and John Spencer, born a few years after
that, in case any one knows them). Really nice man.
This relates because my new big brother is a tech writer for one of the
major aerospace companies in the High Desert! How funny that we chose a
similar career long before we knew of each other. It wasn't like our Dad was
around to suggest or coach him - our dad walked out on his sibling group
when he was 18 months.
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[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-71429 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of Mark L.
Levinson
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 3:31 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Tech Writing: The Second Generation
Dick asks:
> Anyone else out
> there following in a parent's footsteps in this trade?
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