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Author: dawnkinster
I'm a long time banker having worked in banks since the age of 17. I took a break when I turned 50 and went back to school. I graduated right when the economy took a turn for the worst and after a year of library work found myself unemployed. I was lucky that my previous bank employer wanted me back. So here I am again, a long time banker. Change is hard.
Change Is Hard 
February 3, 2026 at 9:48 am
Sending you a hug, Dawn. ❤️
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February 3, 2026 at 9:58 am
Thank you. I feel ok today. Though I feel a need to go find his birth year so I can figure out how old he’d be. I don’t know why I can’t remember that.
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February 3, 2026 at 10:00 am
Oops..his birthday is TOMORROW! LOL. Oh well, we’ll celebrate it for two days.
He’d have been 97 tomorrow. I have no doubt he’d have made it to 97 too if not for that semi truck.
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February 3, 2026 at 10:04 am
Who’s judging 😉 Happy Heavenly birthday to your dad!
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February 3, 2026 at 10:10 am
I wonder if I have it wrong on the calendar. Will have to go look. So today he’d be a young 96 and tomorrow he will have turned 97.
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February 3, 2026 at 10:12 am
Quite possible! I used to mix up my parents’ anniversary with my mother’s birthday. One’s on the 4th, the other on the 5th of August 🙂
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February 3, 2026 at 10:08 am
What a great pic. Happy memory!
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February 3, 2026 at 10:12 am
It IS a great picture. Someone found it and sent it to me. I can’t remember who. I hadn’t seen it before. It’s the four of us kids and dad out at an island in the lake we lived on. We water skiied from that island almost every evening. We had these old white clunky skies, but because they were so wide, it was easy to get up. Plus we weighed next to nothing. The ‘little blue boat’ was our first boat. 35 horsepower, hardly anything. Most of us had to stay on the island while dad pulled one of us around, because having us all in the boat would make it too sluggish to pull a skier. So many memories in that one picture.
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February 3, 2026 at 10:42 am
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