Donna Poster: A Short Story

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Donna Poster grew up on a small farm North East of Royalton, MN. Her parents raised her up to be a hardworking, successful, independent woman. She married the love of her life, Greg, and they moved out to a small farm in Morril, MN. When a small farm went up for sale just down the road from where she grew up, she knew it was meant to be. They raised three kids in a small 1900’s house. Donna is often seen working around the house, in the fields, or cooking in the kitchen. When I picture Donna I often imagine her in the kitchen wearing jeans that fit her like capris, because of her long legs, a old barn shirt, and her hair thrown up, off of her neck. She would most likely have the radio on listening to country music, going back and forth from the fridge to the stove cooking a batch of homemade, chocolate chip cookies. Donna’s top priority is her kids and grandchildren, she would do anything and …show more content…

Most of the time we do not really care about years that we were not alive for, but all of the things that happened before us often affect the way we live today. If we did not have the past we did, we may not even been born, or we would be living a totally different lifestyle. Therefor learning history is very important, it shows us what our elders went throw in their lifetime. I am not much of a history fan, but I do think the history part of this paper is important because it shows what the person interviewed went through. After doing the research I was interested and amazed of all of the things that happened, and I never heard about. It makes me wonder about all of the other years that I do not really know anything about. My views have changed after knowing that my mom went through so many crazy events in just a year. It makes me think if that was just one year of her life I can not imagine looking at every year and discovering more things that went

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