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True Dough

(25,690 posts)
Sun Dec 28, 2025, 11:44 AM 2 hrs ago

What's one thing you'll never do again that you wish you could?

For me, it's to sit down at dinner with my folks, both deceased. I'd dearly love to have that privilege again.

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What's one thing you'll never do again that you wish you could? (Original Post) True Dough 2 hrs ago OP
Seeing loved ones who have passed will be high on everyone's list biophile 2 hrs ago #1
Definitely. highplainsdem 58 min ago #11
Run a sub 5-minute mile Redleg 1 hr ago #2
Spend more time with my parents and grandparents. pandr32 1 hr ago #3
Ride a horse SheltieLover 1 hr ago #4
I can help you with that one Bayard 1 hr ago #7
Lol SheltieLover 48 min ago #12
Return to Antarctica. sinkingfeeling 1 hr ago #5
The big xmas eve gathering, Bayard 1 hr ago #6
... SheltieLover 47 min ago #13
Downhill skiing in VT and NH Ritabert 1 hr ago #8
Seeing my parents again and down hill skiing. I quit at 72 and miss it surfered 1 hr ago #9
Backpacking. lastlib 1 hr ago #10
Yeah.. One last childhood Christmas in my Grandmother's living room with my parents, my aunts uncles, sister, cousins hlthe2b 19 min ago #14

Bayard

(28,409 posts)
6. The big xmas eve gathering,
Sun Dec 28, 2025, 12:33 PM
1 hr ago

With all of my family, alive and well. Close to 15 people crowded into my folks little house, and noisy as hell. It was wonderful.

I get depressed this time every year.

lastlib

(27,462 posts)
10. Backpacking.
Sun Dec 28, 2025, 12:47 PM
1 hr ago

I used to throw on a 50-lb pack and be out in the woods for a week, hike 75 miles. Since I broke my leg, I can barely walk to the end of my driveway (100 yards) without pain.

hlthe2b

(112,667 posts)
14. Yeah.. One last childhood Christmas in my Grandmother's living room with my parents, my aunts uncles, sister, cousins
Sun Dec 28, 2025, 01:36 PM
19 min ago

She had an enormous (at least to all of the kids) historical brick house full of unusual semi-hidden passageways (from many prior add-ons), antiques, and an additional enclosed staircase that some of the cousins could escape to to avoid a few of the others..

Always Christmas dinner-buffet style (given the number of people) and drop-in visitors from the tiny town. Big natural Christmas tree full of packages (name draw for most of them). Nice memories.

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