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> On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 16:20:23 -0500, jmcquown >
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>>On 12/4/2013 3:34 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>>> On 12/4/2013 11:52 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>>>>> On 12/4/2013 10:34 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>>>>> Time for everyone to be cooking for her))
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Agreed! I spoke with my 92 year old aunt yesterday. (This isn't the
>>>>>> one who hung up her apron for Thanksgiving.) She's my dad's older
>>>>>> sister. I fear dementia must run in the family. She remembered who
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> am (I think) but when I mentioned I talked with my cousin Jim on
>>>>>> Thanksgiving she said who? Your brother James' son. She doesn't
>>>>>> remember having a brother named James. Oh dear. Fortunately her
>>>>>> daughter was able to take time off to stay with her. She's quite
>>>>>> concerned, as you can imagine.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am pleased she still knows you and you keep in contact with her)
>>>>>
>>>> AFAIK aside from her children I'm the only relative who keeps in touch.
>>>> Oddly, I've never met her in person. We just talk on the phone,
>>>> exchange
>>>> a card now and then. She's an artist, or at least she used to paint.
>>>> She'd drop me little notes on cards she had printed from her water
>>>> colours.
>>>
>>> Oh that is so lovely)) She obviously loves you) I am so pleased you
>>> stay
>>> in touch)) Any chance of you visiting her?
>>>
>>>

>>Here is a painting she did. It hangs on an inside wall in the hallway.
>> I found it in a closet. I'm always finding stuff around here.
>>
>>http://s1342.photobucket.com/user/ji...b9092.jpg.html
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>>This is a painting of the *very* small town where she and her brothers
>>grew up in Pennsylvania. A village, really.
>>
>>Jill

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> Dang, what a treasure.


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