Six-Word Memoirs “Nixon childhood, Reagan teenager, hope finally.” <br> —Tonia Mohammed-Madejczyk, Northport, New York An unexpected personal story was shared by a listener during the Lopate segment: And in an intense few minutes of radio, Anne from Hell’s Kitchen shared her six-word memoir, “I found my mother’s suicide note.” She talked about how important it was for her to come to terms with her mother’s death, and the role of the note in that process. The note, she explained, was just six words: “No flowers, no funeral, no nothing.” Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser went on the "Love & Heartbreak" book tour
Word ladder be connected with a word ladder. Knuth used a fixed collection of 5,757 of the most common English five-letter words, excluding proper nouns. He determined exactly when two words of the collection had a word ladder between them via other words in the collection. Knuth found that most words were connected to each other, and he also found that 671 words of the collection did not form a word ladder with any other words. He called these words "aloof", because "aloof" is itself an example of such a word. Word ladder Word ladder (also known as Doublets, word-links, change-the-word puzzles,