Ann Edall-Robson Author, Photographer, Lover of Life "Capturing moments others may never get to experience." | Carrot Ranch Flash Fiction Prompt - December 13, 2018 - Write a story about Cora Kingston. |
She loathed the old law obliterating a woman’s maiden name when she married. Erasing her true identity, leaving only her first name intact, sometimes. She had been searching for years to fill in the blanks of where she was from, who she was from. The obituary took up half the column. An invitation to a family reunion/memorial, and in the middle of the list was her full name, her town. Someone else had been searching too and found her, and her kin. They were all descendants of Cora Kingston. A perfect stranger had unlocked her life’s history pages. #AnnEdallRobson #TheQuietSpirits #MoonRising #FromWhereICome #99Words #FlashFiction
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Lori Stafford
12/14/2018 03:51:41 pm
Love this, honey!
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Yeah. My great grandmother had five different last names in her lifetime. If she had hit the road imagine how hard she'd be to track. And four different last names between me and her. Fortunately all those names only added to her life stories and long list of descendants.
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12/17/2018 06:49:38 am
D, I hear you when it comes to multiple last names of our decendants. It can certainly make for an interesting who's who in our heritage.
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12/16/2018 03:55:55 pm
Ann this is so true to what happens now with ancestry.com and other such sites. You search, others look and soon you know more from a perfect stranger than you knew from your own digging. Good story.
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12/17/2018 06:56:22 am
I couldn't agree more, Irene. The addiction to genealogy presents many
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Robbie Cheadle
12/19/2018 01:49:42 am
I enjoyed your take
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