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A Grandmother’s LEGACY

On Sundays after church when I was growing up, my father drove our family to his mother’s house for lunch. Grandmother lived in a 1914 Craftsman-style home that featured wide eaves above a deep front porch. Its distinctive square pillars were flanked by wooden rails and balustrades. Matching gliders painted Nile Green beckoned from either end, and

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