SWEET AUNTS continued from 55
was a tiny plastic“ Give-A-Show Projector,” a kind of flashlight-powered slide projector you could shine up on the ceiling when you were supposed to be sleeping.
When I graduated from high school, Aunt Rose gave me a card with a crisp 100 dollar bill in it. This was mind boggling. I had never been in possession of such a thing before. I’ m not sure I’ d even seen one. This was not the sort of thing that happened in our family.
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I have since learned that when the twins( my dad and Uncle Edward) were small, two of the older sisters each took one in charge. Aunt Rose took dad.
She lived to be a hundred and she never stopped reading, even when she was down to reading books one letter at a time with a super strong magnifier.
But of all my fantastic and saintly aunts, none is more dear to my heart than mother’ s older sister Eula, who the family called“ Pat.”
After Aunt Pat moved from Brown County back to Alabama, I would only see her one week of the year, when we went on summer vacation. But she was always the sweet one, the nice one. She was a strong character, a real mountain woman, and just as nice as the day is long.
When I was a teenager and into my 20s, I went to Alabama to seek my roots and try my chances in the newspaper business. Aunt Pat took me in as if I were her own, housed me, fed me, and was endlessly interested and supportive of me in all my endeavors. She was like the grandmother I never really had.
She was very wise and so kind and generous. She literally wouldn’ t harm a bee. She knew all about animals and nature. She was a great
56 Our Brown County Jan./ Feb. 2023