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Weekly Contest #374
The Great Corn Caper Most people don't get the chance to have a relationship with their great-grandmother, but I was lucky. Probably it was because of my birth position in the family – being the oldest child of the oldest child of her oldest child. Her name was Pearl. I called her Mammaw. I have a photo of her playing with me when I was a year old. She was 60. Even then she looked the same as I recall her looking for years after. OLD! Silver white hair, thick glasses, and an aura of fatigue about her. Pearl was quiet, demure, a proper chu...
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