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- Her plaque with the silverware from the Queen Mary
- Drinking her coffee out of a saucer – watching her tip the cup to leak a bit into the saucer, then sipping it
- Peeling an apple for Kenny (her husband) every day before he got home for lunch
- Scraping the burnt off of toast
- Making raisin bran out of bran flakes and raisins
- Making salad dressing out of mayonnaise, ketchup and relish
- Giving me Planter’s dry-roasted peanuts and Dr Pepper when I watched TV late at night (which must not have been very late) – watching “Truth or Consequences,” “What’s My Line,” and – one other…
- Suzy, the black & white dog
- Teaching me the piano with a piece called “Funny Face” – it made me laugh
- Playing her piano and singing hymns
- Various memories of church, including sitting in a pew next to her, seeing the wadded up Kleenex in her purse when she got us Doublemint Gum or butterscotch, and taking us to vacation bible school
- Picking tomato bugs off of her tomatoes – big, fat green things – and stomping them. Everytime I smell a ripe tomato on the vine I think of her
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