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This is a Story about me This is a picture of me when I was around 6 years old(40 years ago) wearing clothes borrowed from the preachers daughter. This is the morning after our house caught fire and burned to the ground. We were at church across the street from our small town home. Our neighbor ran into the church and yelled "Maxine" (my mother) Your house is on FIRE!!! My mother who was playing the piano jumped up and ran knocking everyone down, proceeded to run into the burning house (all wood). Now you ask me why would anyone run into a burning how My mother is an animal lover, we had animals of all kinds. It so happens at this time we had a couple of baby pigs on the back porch, because there mother had gotten into a pond and wound up freezing to death as it was middle of winter. My dad brought the babies home for my mother to take care of them. Okay back to the story. My mother ran into this burning house to save these pigs. By this time the fire department shows up from the town next to ours. It took them 20 minutes to get there, by this time the house is a full blaze. Everyone in our small town was now surrounding us and watching it burn. The firemen went into the house to get my mother, who by this time was already outside again. She couldn't find the pigs but as everything was pretty much already destroyed, the fireman finally saved a couple of our precious possessions. These brave men saved my mothers piano, a sewing machine and a dinner tray with a unfinished meal They thought the dinner tray was funny (we did too). They really couldn't save anything else as the fire was so hot and everything being made of wood it burned pretty fast. Now this being said all my childhood went up in smoke. As for the baby pigs, it seems they escaped with no harm done except for the one I am holding it had a burn on his nose. They put a band-aid on it and I was carrying it around, the local newspaper happened to show up for a story and a took this picture and ran it in local newspaper. I have to say that this fire has affected my whole life, I save everything now. I always make sure I have multiple copies of all my pictures and very careful with them. One nice thing that came out of this fire, we learned how much we meant to our small town (500 people) the whole county came together and gave up a party and supplied us with everything we needed to begin again. I am talking tons of stuff. It is a nice feeling knowing that your neighbors loved us as we loved them. They really dont have that now days. We haved lived in the same house for 17 years and still barely know our neighbors, so sad Oh well, I came across this photo and it just brought back my memories and thought I would share. Thanks if you actually took the time to read my story

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This is a Story about me This is a picture of me when I was around 6 years old(40 years ago) wearing clothes borrowed from the preachers daughter. This is the morning after our house caught fire and burned to the ground. We were at church across the street from our small town home. Our neighbor ran into the church and yelled "Maxine" (my mother) Your house is on FIRE!!! My mother who was playing the piano jumped up and ran knocking everyone down, proceeded to run into the burning house (all wood). Now you ask me why would anyone run into a burning how My mother is an animal lover, we had animals of all kinds. It so happens at this time we had a couple of baby pigs on the back porch, because there mother had gotten into a pond and wound up freezing to death as it was middle of winter. My dad brought the babies home for my mother to take care of them. Okay back to the story. My mother ran into this burning house to save these pigs. By this time the fire department shows up from the town next to ours. It took them 20 minutes to get there, by this time the house is a full blaze. Everyone in our small town was now surrounding us and watching it burn. The firemen went into the house to get my mother, who by this time was already outside again. She couldn't find the pigs but as everything was pretty much already destroyed, the fireman finally saved a couple of our precious possessions. These brave men saved my mothers piano, a sewing machine and a dinner tray with a unfinished meal They thought the dinner tray was funny (we did too). They really couldn't save anything else as the fire was so hot and everything being made of wood it burned pretty fast. Now this being said all my childhood went up in smoke. As for the baby pigs, it seems they escaped with no harm done except for the one I am holding it had a burn on his nose. They put a band-aid on it and I was carrying it around, the local newspaper happened to show up for a story and a took this picture and ran it in local newspaper. I have to say that this fire has affected my whole life, I save everything now. I always make sure I have multiple copies of all my pictures and very careful with them. One nice thing that came out of this fire, we learned how much we meant to our small town (500 people) the whole county came together and gave up a party and supplied us with everything we needed to begin again. I am talking tons of stuff. It is a nice feeling knowing that your neighbors loved us as we loved them. They really dont have that now days. We haved lived in the same house for 17 years and still barely know our neighbors, so sad Oh well, I came across this photo and it just brought back my memories and thought I would share. Thanks if you actually took the time to read my story