What if anything do you give someone for their 100th birthday? What could you possibly give someone who has pretty much survived and seen most of what life could have to offer? I was asked to write up something for my grandmother’s upcoming 100th birthday and I declined to do so at the risk of being forever ostracized and maligned(and possibly disowned). I didn’t feel then as I do now that I could put together any combination of words to do any measure of justice to someone who has survived through Sharecropping and the depression and who has actually BEEN “The...
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