My Life in Six Words

My Life in Six Words is a story project started by Smith magazine (inspired by Ernest Hemingway.  Legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response?  For sale: baby shoes,  never worn.) The hook is this:  Everyone has a story.  Can you tell yours in six words? 
Back in 2006 they ran a contest and received somewhere around 11,000 entries.  Earlier this month, a book was published:  Not Quite What I Was Planning:  Six Word Memoirs By Writers Famous and Obscure .  This morning, in the usually lame Charlotte Observer, there was a short little blurb about the project.  I read it aloud and well, we ran with it...

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[Uncle]

"No I really don't," she said.

[DenisP]

Anyone got a screwdriver?