On her 100th Birthday

Jean Ruegge Schwarzwalder, May 29, 1920 - June 25, 2003.

The following is a re-post from last year:

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MAY 29

Nineteen seventeen

Born into wealthy

Massachusetts patrician family.

Of an urban center.

Second of nine.

Life cut short 

November 22

Nineteen sixty-three.

He molded my  youthful politics

Into  passionate, steadfast beliefs.

 
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MAY 29

Nineteen twenty

Born into struggling

Nebraskan farming family,

In a tiny community.

Youngest of eleven.

Life ebbed out

June 25

Twenty o three.

She chiseled my youthful independence

Into confident, lifelong self-reliance.

TWO PLAYERS

On my personal stage

Of drama and comedy

In several acts.

 

Diane Moline