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Show ane Womansearchingfor herfirst love DEAR FINDERS: | am trying on the rebound at the end of 1945 to locate my first love. | realize and moved to Texas. this sounds like many letters you I moved back to Fresno in 1948 receive, but the difference is that and ran into Kent briefly in 1951 :Pve searched and tried everything — he was setting tile in a new house across the street from mine! We talked a little. | was unhappily married, but I had a family and divorce was not as common in those days. He has never been out of my mind. I even dream of him every month or so. I've never loved any- one the way I loved him. My How to find someone Finders is a nationwide column. To find someone, send a short letter (200 words or less) to Finders, c/o Suite 272, 816 Auto Mall Road, Bloomington, IN 47401. or two about your relationship and why you want to find this person again. All letters become the property of Finders. If someone is trying to find you through this column: send a short note to the above address indicating whether you, too, wouldlike Incluge your name, address and phone number as well as the name ofthe person you are trying to get back in touch. I* bothpar ties are willing, Finders will for ward the letter. to find. Also include a paragraph dreams could be fulfilied if I could locate Kent and learn if he is still AUREL alive, well and happy. Michael R. Evans I've been single for more than 10 years, but he might be married His name is Marion Ken Shock- and I wouldn’t expect to have a ley, but he was called Kent or Ken- relationship again. I'd just like a ny. We met January 1941 in Fres- letter or a telephone conversation since 1951, but with no results. no, Calif., when I was 16 years old and he was 20. I was a senior graduating from high school, and he was a tile-setter with a construction company. It was love at first sight! We became a steady couple during the World War II years even after he enlisted in the Navy. He had been a pilot and was placed in an experimental division at a Naval base in Maryland. Hank and Bess Shockley of Redlands, Calif. Their other four children were Wanda, Carl, June and Wayne. There is no evidence that Kent is deceased, even though he'd be about 75 years old now. I sincerely hope that he can be found. Carolyn Guess Lewis time I saw Joan Turner was in 1950. I was in the Army, and visited her and her mother at their home before going to Korea. I believe her father was in the Navy; CLINTON: challengers as liberals and propos- dogical consensus on the impor“tance of some of these issues, not ‘inecessarily the solutions. And as “iwe know,Bill Clinton is as able to > read shifts in attitudes as well as % anyone,” Keene said. $ Besides, Clinton is not an ortho<dox liberal. Never has been — at ‘least, not since 1980, when kansas voters got fed up with ir arrogant young governor and sed him out of office for runing an overly activist govern- ment. After two years’ reflection — ¢ and constantpolling and politick- * ing — Clinton won his way back $ into the governor's chair in 1982 $ by apologizing for his earlier Oeereeeeeerrr rr TT ieee r rrr errr reer eee © excesses, attacking his Democratic 2 : : : sick children is being tried on charges she abused two foster children, a case prosecutors link to a psychological disorder. In opening statements last week, prosecutors said Yvonne Eldridge starved the two giris in 1994 andthen told doctors they suffered from a long list of problems that included vomiting, seizures, migraines and acute diarrhea. Based on her word, doctors did scores of tests, surgically planted feeding tubes in their stomachs and even removed one girl's lowerintestine. 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When accepting the Democrats’ nomination on July 16, 1992, Clinton even outflanked then-Vice President Dan Quayle onhis signature issue: “Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about ‘family values.’ Our families have values. But our government doesn’t.” Gustom 2 Upholstery Dept. store price 12 & up BODY-CONTOURING BRIEFS & PANTY LEGS IN WHITE & BEIGE $399 . 56 100% COTTON IN WHITE, Dept. store pnce *8-'4 & up CAMISOLES, HALFSLIPS ; j= 33 MARTINEZ, Calif. (AP) — proxy, a form of child abuse in A woman once honored by Nan- which an adult makes a child ill cy Reagan for her work with to get attenuon. THE LINGERIE SPECTACULAR ing nonideological “populist” reforms,such as lowerutility rates and better schools. Similarly, Bill Clinton won the presidencyin 1992 as a DLC-style “New Democrat,” which translated partly as someone more conservative on many “values” issues than liberal Democratstraditionally had been. For example, Clinton backed the death penalty, vowed to “end welfare as we knowit,” and called for putting 100,000 more police on ; ; $ . i me. I have thought a lot about Joan in the past years. She andI have a Jot ofstories to pass onto each other about old friends and our possible relationship Walter E. Turner OTHER SEARCHES: Greg Talovich seeks Steven and Kate Talson, once of Northern California. * Carl Dixson seeks William Dixson, once of Omaha, Neb. * Clifford L. Jensen seeks Brad and William Sorensen, once of Gunnison, Utah. Once-honored mother’ faces abuse charges What’s New AtT. 'S This Week? DEAR FINDERS: The last We broke upin February 1945, and I never really understood why except that he may have met someone in Maryland as we didn’t get to see each other often. I married (Continued from Page A16) teeeeorreees to ease my mind. Kent was the second son of anyway, he was not there at the time. Joan and [ were friends at Point LomaHigh in San Diego. 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