Pictures of My Childhood

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Born Again in Jesus Christ.  My baptism on Sunday, February 26, 1956, at Trinity Lutheran Church in  Long Beach, California.  The single most important day of my life.	Our Family.  Me with my dad, Kenneth Shirey, and my brother Paul with my mother, Marjorie Shirey, About 1959	Villa Grande.  Paul and me with Aunt Marie Gelan and Mother on the porch of Auntie's house in Villa Grande, Sonoma County, CA, where Mother first visited in 1929 and we still stay in the redwoods.
My cousins Tim, Susie, Trish, and Tom Thorvick (in order left to right, with Paul on the far left), in our grandparents' back yard in Long Beach.	My first portrait.    March 15, 1956, three months and two days old.	My grandparents Jack and Maybelle Jenkins with my mother and Paul and me at our house at 6743 Premium Street, Long Beach, California, where I lived the first 21 years of my life.

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