Plain and Fancy Girl

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My name is Marian Longnecker Beaman Hello and Welcome! Longenecker, my last name for 26 years, reveals my plain Swiss Mennonite origins. At one point as a teacher at Lancaster Mennonite School, I was addressed as Sister Longenecker. Then I turned fancy and became Beaman after marrying a blue-eyed, blonde-haired German boy from Washington State. His original artwork often appears on my pages. I wrote about our unlikely meeting here. Reading was my first love. Here is a photo of me at 14 months in a starched white dotted Swiss dress sitting in a tiny rocker where I often had my nose in a book. My undergraduate degree in secondary education came from Eastern Mennonite College. Here’s how I look

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