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| Mammy spent a lot of
time, face to face and on the telephone, helping people through rough patches in their lives. Never very formally nor officially; never, as far as I know, remunerated. I was sometimes enough of a young jerk to resent the amount of attention she devoted to this sort of Christian pursuit. Seemed to me she spent an undue lot of time talking to suicidal people. Not that she neglected me, but I was a notably self-centered kid. A woman she helped made this lawn furniture as a thank-you gift.
The high privet hedge at left, just visible behind the lemon blossoms, bore a heavy growth of Thompson seedless grapes. Valerie’s all-time favorites. It separated us from the back-fence neighbors (Willises, I think maybe), with whom we really never became very friendly. Don’t tell anybody, but we tended among ourselves to refer to them as “the Ogre” and the “the OGirl.” |
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| The t-shaped clothesline support, barely visible at left, supported (surprise!) a set of clotheslines that ran across the back of the yard, in front of the grapes, ending by the “playhouse.” |
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