This is a picture of my parents, Nan Rugheimer and Guy Cromer, taken
on a beach near Charleston, S.C. during their courtship.
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![My Parents](photos/Image2tn.jpg) [Click for Larger Photo]
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![Me, as a cute kid.](photos/Image3tn.jpg) [Click for Larger Photo]
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My first formal portrait to celebrate the fact that I was one year old. This is the only time I was a cute kid. It was all downhill from here.
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My sister Nancy, my mother and I. Nancy and I wore our hair like this
until we were in junior high. I am the one in the tam. Nancy is the one
with the new watch
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![Nancy, my mother and I](photos/Image5tn.jpg) [Click for Larger Photo]
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![My father and I with our goats.](photos/Image6tn.jpg) [Click for Larger Photo]
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My father is holding Billy, I'm holding Buttsy. Buttsy use to
push me in the hammock
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I was about seven. The rabbit was named Danny.
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![At age 7 with Danny.](photos/Image7tn.jpg) [Click for Larger Photo]
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![My sister Nancy and I](photos/Image10tn.jpg) [Click for Larger Photo]
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I was a senior in high school when this was taken. Nancy was in college, a math major. I was going to major in math, too. Sister mathematicians.
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My four children(l. to r.): Nan, Betsy, Guy and Laurie. Guy did the computer graphics for The Computer Nut and two of my daughters are now writings books of their own.
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![Nan, Betsy, Guy and Laurie](photos/Image13tn.jpg) [Click for Larger Photo]
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![Urbana, Illinois, 1956](photos/Image12tn.jpg) [Click for Larger Photo]
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Urbana, Illinois, 1956. Behind us are the barracks where I began to write. I really had two choices - write or lose my mind. I wrote.
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Me and my Yellow Bird. I got my pilot's license in this plane on December 19,1984.
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![Me and my Yellow Bird](photos/Image16tn.jpg) [Click for Larger Photo]
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![Running the wing of my husband's sailplane.](photos/Image15tn.jpg) [Click for Larger Photo]
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Here I am running the wing of my husband's sailplane. The sailplane
is hooked to an airplane by a long rope, and I hold the wings level until they get going.
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