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Southern Aunts
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Andrea Reed |
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All personalities we had them, all with different gifts.
Helen, tall and full figure,
She was known for her cakes and pies.
We would make checker board cakes and pies three at a time.
While the cakes and pies baked,
We would go out to the garden and pick the seasonal bounty for supper.
She passed on to us a love of seasonal and regional foods
Ada, short and petite, she never -far from her mop.
She kept an immaculate home.
We would have tea parties,
Play cards and straighten the house.
We could reach the high spots she could not.
She shared with us the love of furnishing a home.
Bert, tall and slender, the artistic one,
She painted dishes,
She enlarged our world with our first taste of the city life
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Alice, she being small and round,
With the loudest of voice,
First to have a career,
Who traveled far and
Came back to settle near family.
Her gift to us was never taking family for granted.
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--Submitted by Reed on 2013-07-16.
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