Terrible Tale of Red Meaner who Really Was My Grandfather's Cousin: Reasons to Not Give Up and Finish What You Start

in #westvirginia7 years ago

My grandfather’s cousin, Red Meaner, had scarlet fever when he was a child and he wasn’t quite all there.
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Red Meaner wasn’t a very good swimmer, but he always had high hopes of swimming all the way across a river near his home town.

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When Red was a young man, he swam halfway across the Ohio river where it crosses in Marietta between West Virginia and Ohio, only to turn around when he started to get worn out.
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He made it halfway across but didn’t think he could make it the whole way.

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So he turned around and swam back to West Virginia where he had started. facial.JPG

Everybody always used to laugh at Red over that.

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Maggie also do an introductory post and tag #introduceyourself

Make sure you have more most dazzling photo on top and a few more and your most relevant tags. What you're going to share on steemit and a short blurb "who you are". This one post sometimes gets a lot of views/followers! :)

Will do. I only get 5 tags tho so am going to have to see if editing is possible.

Yeah! Glad to see you on here. The writing and story tags are also popular ;) as are nature photography and poetry when you start sharing more poems! I'll resteem To my audience <3

That is really nice! Thanks MountainJewel! I am new to tags but hope to learn for this!

nice

Thanks. Not sure how people do things at Steemit, but glad you are supportive! Thanks again!