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From: "Ruth" <>
Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Saving memories....
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:56:49 -0600
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I didn't think you'd feel that your life was a hardship. Your attitude is always
upbeat--take life as it comes and laugh as much as we can along the way. That's
how to live happy and long, I'd say. You should know. I'm only 60.
:o)
Ruth
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~Jean Anouilh
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Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Saving memories....
> No, Sis didn't think she had 'the gift of gab' I inherited from my Daddy,
> and couldn't be convinced to sit still long enough to write stuff
> down...She left all that up to me....I told her as I tell everyone, just
> write it like you would talk it....Even if you don't have a talent to
> write it like a published author, generations to come will get lots of
> family information out of it.....After her daughter build a huge new
> house near my sister I usually slept over there and we would talk till
> bedtime....She said her Mom was always working at public work or around
> the house and never took the time to tell her about our family
> memories....
>
> Sis was born with an attitude, from stories Mama told.....and never lost
> it... Her glass was ever half empty.....She told me stuff that was
> happening over there from her point of view...and I'm finding out more
> all the time that attitude of hers colored her life and all she saw and
> did....She died almost a year ago and I now stay with one of my younger
> sisters when I go over there.....She is SO different from what Joyce told
> me about her ! I got married so young I wasn't around her much when we
> were growing up....Spent most of my home time with my older
> sister.....Now I'm wondering how Joyce talked about me to her ! *grin*
> We'll make it alright.....
>
> I don't really consider that I had a hard life....maybe because I was
> always trying to die and got special treatment from my Daddy and Ma....I
> always 'knew' I was their favorite and now that I think back I think I
> was Mom's favorite girl....She told me so many more things than she did
> the others.....Maybe when I said weird or funny things to her I reminded
> her of Daddy who died so young...I was 9....Some of the others may think
> they were the favorite....I don't want them to feel bad so I don't brag
> about it in front of them !*grin* Luckily I can remember how things were,
> way back when...Yesterday ? Forget it...I have ! *grin* We worked hard,
> but then all farm folks have to work hard....
>
> Jeannie T....Shutting down to make beef vegetable soup from that leftover
> pot roast....Yummmmmm! Son read the ingredients on the beef bouillon I
> get at a Korean food store once and said " My God Mom ! Have you read how
> much MSG is in this stuff ? It's the first ingredient ! " I shrugged and
> said ' Don't it taste good though ?" Everyone knows you can't drink the
> water, breathe the air or eat the food......
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> On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:57:35 -0600 "Ruth" <> writes:
>> Thanks, Jeannie, you certainly let us see your mother through your
> eyes. Such a hard life she had! And you, too. It's interesting that your
> sister remembers her childhood with sadness, and you have happier
> memories. Does she write about her memories? Ruth
>
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