Tag: mrs
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April 2, 2019
My mother, Betty, was an only child. She grew up during the Great Depression when babies sometimes got left in baskets on people’s doorsteps. Every morning, when she was a kid, my mother would open the front door, hoping that someone had left a baby—a brother or a sister for her to love. And so,…
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October 4, 2011
“Mrs. Coolidge in Tom Thumb Wedding” Those are the words written underneath the photo of my mother (on the left) and (the unidentified) Tom Thumb bride and groom. But who in the world is Mrs. Coolidge? And what was her role in a Tom Thumb wedding? My mother is gone. I can’t ask her. I…