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The phone rang 3 times before the secretary answered it. With each ring Elaine Moore thought that her heart would stop if she had to bear one more ring without an answer. Her palms were sweaty and she was frantically pacing back and forth across the kitchen floor. Her red hair, which hung past [...]
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When I was 6 I began passing out unexpectedly. I saw many doctors and specialists, but every test came back negative or proved inconclusive. It would happen almost exactly every 3 months. The first time it happened I was staying with my grandparents for the week. I had just sat down at the [...]
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In 1880, Thomas Edison built his first electric rail system. He did not actually invent the electric railroad, but with a $40,000 grant form the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. he made vast improvements on the design. The grant specified that he build a system for long distance travel. On May 13, 1880 Edison [...]
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When I was 8 I saw my first dead body. Before that I had never been interested in trains. Afterwards, somehow, they became my life. My house happened to be 2 blocks away from the railroad crossing at 5th street, which is where I found the body. My mother adamantly advised me to stay [...]
