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Billy Rose

Brush With Greatness number 3, Three Beers and Two Berry’s

Theft turned into opportunity when I was a senior at St Mary high school. I worked at a gas station that was one block from my house, and…

5 min readSep 3, 2022

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Brush With Greatness number 3, Three Beers and Two Berry’s

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Billy Rose

GROWING PAINS

My childhood neighborhood was a very economically diverse middle-class neighborhood. There were families that could afford almost anything…

9 min readJul 7, 2022

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Billy Rose

Services Rendered

I did numerous jobs while growing up in a wonderful Midwest River town. Dad always said, “If you want something, you got to work for it.”

8 min readNov 5, 2021

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Billy Rose

BLOW LITTLE SPIDER

HE’S A LONG LEGGED SPIDER

1 min readOct 30, 2021

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Billy Rose

NOT IN OUR CITY

“The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don’t realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry…

13 min readOct 9, 2021

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Billy Rose

Meanings Of Words

Words sometimes have two or more meanings. The English language is in a constant state of flux. It’s fascinating how words can evolve over…

5 min readSep 17, 2021

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Meanings Of Words

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Billy Rose

Brush with Greatness: The Snowman

Bob Dylan once called him the greatest living songwriter. He died in 1980, at the age of 39, of a heroin overdose a week after his…

7 min readAug 26, 2021

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Brush with Greatness: The Snowman

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Billy Rose

Remembering Bruce

There are millions of people in the world and any of them could become great friends. That was the belief I had when I drove a public…

7 min readAug 5, 2021

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Remembering Bruce

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Billy Rose

Toe Tappin’, Head Bobbin’ and Finger Snappin’

“Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.” ― Keith…

11 min readJul 8, 2021

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Billy Rose

HOT FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME

“War is hell!”, Handy Andy said after listening to me and Bobby complain about the lopsided numbers we had to deal with in our battles with…

7 min readJun 30, 2021

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HOT FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME

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Billy Rose

Billy Rose

I grew up in Clinton Iowa, along the banks of the Mississippi River. I am not a professional writer. However, I do enjoy writing about my life experiences.

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