As a kid in elementary school, I hated doing crafts, especially projects that involved gluing things together. Once, I had to decorate a miniature house with strips of old newspaper dipped in paste. That stuff stuck to my hands and was hard to remove.
Now, as an adult, I paste all the time—a sentence here, a paragraph there. Thanks to technology, I don’t get my hands dirty in the process. My creations are better than what I made in elementary school, or at least I hope they are.
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Thanks to Girlie on the Edge for inspiring the above true story with her six-sentence prompt for this week, in which the given word is “paste.” You can click here to participate in this week’s hop and read other six-sentence creations.
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New! Why Grandma Doesn’t Know Me
Copyright 2021 by Abbie Johnson Taylor.
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Sixteen-year-old Natalie’s grandmother, suffering from dementia and confined to a wheelchair, lives in a nursing home and rarely recognizes Natalie. But one Halloween night, she tells her a shocking secret that only she and Natalie’s mother know. Natalie is the product of a one-night stand between her mother, who is a college English teacher, and another professor.
After some research, Natalie learns that people with dementia often have vivid memories of past events. Still not wanting to believe what her grandmother has told her, she finds her biological father online. The resemblance between them is undeniable. Not knowing what else to do, she shows his photo and website to her parents.
Natalie realizes she has some growing up to do. Scared and confused, she reaches out to her biological father, and they start corresponding.
Her younger sister, Sarah, senses their parents’ marital difficulties. At Thanksgiving, when she has an opportunity to see Santa Claus, she asks him to bring them together again. Can the jolly old elf grant her request?
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Abbie, that’s the kind of pasting I love too! 😀 Lovely response to the challenge and interesting to learn a bit about you in the process!
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Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed the insight.
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I Can most certainly understand that. The paste we used in school felt weird and the internet kind is much more interesting and efficient
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I quite agree. I’ve never liked getting my hands dirty.
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Cutting and pasting is far easier today than it was when I was in grade school as well.
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You know, some things are easier to do than they were back then, and some things are harder to do now than they were back then.
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I wasn’t so good at crafts, either, and much prefer to edit and paste and put things together the easy way.
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I don’t blame you. Great minds think alike, don’t they?
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My elementary school art teacher was really into papier-mache, and we stuck pasty newspaper strips to lots of items!
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Yeah, that’s what we were using in my elementary school when I was a kid. I just couldn’t think of the name of it. Thank you.
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A great response to the prompt. Creativity certainly does come in multiple forms.
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Yes. And we each have our own style of creation.
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