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My mother used to say, "You cost me a pretty penny!" And I did. When both my brother and sister were grown and gone from home, my parents discovered that another baby was on the way. At the age of forty-three, in a small-town hospital in 1937,my mother gave birth — to me. The total bill came to a whopping forty-seven dollars back then. Can you imagine? Forty-seven dollars! A pretty penny indeed! We were not people of means, but Mother was industrious and creative. "Waste not, want not" was her motto. Many Omega Replica Watches evenings,! fell asleep to the rhythmic thump and whir of her treadle sewing machine. Crisp, polished cottons and sturdy, nubby woolens slid under the needle as she sewed into the quiet hours of the night, copying current styles so that I was well-dressed.

Mother scraped together funds to provide musical training. The house rang with noise —my fingers tripping over the piano keys, my bow grating across violin strings, screeching like a cat with its tail caught under a rocking chair. Our voices harmonized in favorite songs. We were a barbershop quartet — minus two — when we sang "By the Light of the Silvery Moon," or" In the Good Old Summer-time. " Sometimes we were the Andrew Sisters singing "The White Cliffs of Dover" and "Till We Meet Again. " Oh, and how we loved show hits like" Happy Days Are Here Again "and "Tea for Two. " Mother taught me to tell the truth. She taught me how to shift gears smoothly in our gray 1937 Packard motorcar that we christened "Eunice. " She taught me the value of working for the things you want.

Mother was as popular with my friends as she was with me. Each time we entered the kitchen, we were greeted with the aromas of mouth-watering fudge, piping hot potato donuts, juicy gooseberry pie of yeasty homemade bread. Those were welcoming smells. They meant comfort. They meant home.

During my college years in the 1950s,Mother and I maintained our close relationship by correspondence, sharing our thoughts, opinions and experiences. To save money on postage, we developed the unique talent of squeezing lots of words in the tiniest Audemar Piguet Replica space on a penny postcard. Not an inch was wasted. After all, "A penny saved is a penny earned. " My five children were born during her late seventies, and she visited as frequently as possible. At age eighty-eight, Mother came to live with our family full-time. We eagerly shuffled our household to accommodate her. She loved going everywhere with me, pushing grocery carts, going to lunch at her favorite restaurant, McDonald's. As we drove, she would chant, "One for the money, two for the hose who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

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