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The Graveyard and the Tennis Ball

Family history is an expression of love

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Rick Lewis
Dec 29, 2025
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I was seated at the dining room table with my parents. Coffee and a spiced holiday tea made by my wife plumed rising steam over a pile of family photos, birth certificates, old phone records, love notes, and Christmas cards—some of which were a century old. We’d unearthed them from a remote closet during my parents’ last move, but m…

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