In love and in life, we make choices.
In the end, we hope those decisions were the right ones. That we selected the proper career. That maybe our husband or wife was our one true love, our forever Valentine. And that all those paths we chose along the way, perhaps, were woven together into some sort of destiny.
But what if we d made different choices?
Would it have changed who we became?
Different choices may have altered life s course for Russell Staufken
For Russell Staufken, different choices may have altered his life s course. Too many times, it turned out, he didn t do enough right things. He was a 73-year-old Navy veteran, who died alone 20 years ago. He d lived in a grimy, unkempt trailer in Sunny Acres park in Perry Township. He was dead for a week before anyone missed him. The only people at his funeral were the funeral director and a military honor guard.
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Ahhh, the marriage proposal. Never has a tradition been surrounded by so much anxiety and planning, and the potential to be embarrassing and, well, even downright cringe-worthy. In these 11 proposals, there’s nudity, dorky costumes, two highly damaged properties, ill-timed urination, a lost ring, and an answer that arrived a year too late and yet they still somehow all turned out OK. So maybe these will serve as inspiration, or a way to drum up a bit of courage .
1. Jumbotron Gone Wrong
Baseball game proposals are pretty standard, and everyone loves seeing the happy couple on the jumbotron. But back in 2011, a 28-year-old man named Jonathan told
J.P. Devine: You were a what?
A startling revelation for J.P. Devine as his first lady recounts attending the inaugural ball for Dwight Eisenhower in 1957.
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We were sitting there, Wednesday night, Jan. 20, watching the fireworks along with our new first couple. The evening featured Tom Hanks with performances from Demi Lovato, Justin Timberlake and Katy Perry singing “Firework,” as the night lit up with real fireworks and more.
Kay said something again, drowned out by band music.
“What did you say?”
Then our president and his first lady, Dr. Jill Biden, stepped out onto the balcony of the White House, as I tried to take notes on a tear-stained pad.
Retro chic? 1950s-style pink bathrooms are being embraced
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Feb 03, 2021, 11:58am EST
Anyone thinking about renovating their older bathrooms may want to think again. Retro-style bathrooms with pink and pastel tiles seem to be making a return.
The streets of Rockaway Township are lined with tidy homes built in the 1950s suburban boom. One of those homes, belonging to Kelly and Frank Rodimer, still features one of the most-patented and now treasured relics of that era – a pink bathroom.
Long out of style and the bane of homeowners trying to sell their homes, vintage bathrooms are now being embraced as retro chic.
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