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Miss Annie then took up the thread of conversation with "We get
plenty lonesome here at night all alone. Christine's "been away fourteen
years; four years at school, then she's been married ten years. Her
mother was a western woman and she died when Christine was born. We
took her when she was two weeks old and raised her as our own. Her
father died two years later. She called us Mama Dora and Mama Annie.

"She was a blessed child and beautiful. Law, but we had a time
at first. Two old maids that didn't know nothing about no babies. We
raised her on cow's milk and everything was sterilized. Then when
she was six months old we gave her pot-licker from collard and turnip
greens too. That's got iron in it. Then we gave her cow's milk with
cream. Her cheeks were like roses and she was fat as a little butterball.
We would take her to town in our flivver and everybody would
stop and look at her. She is a beautiful woman now and has two lovely
children, a boy and a girl. She married a man of means who is a fine
fellow. She was going to school and living with her mother's sister
when she met him. He sent us a check for three hundred dollars
Christmas and Christine sent us a big Christmas box. Law, honey,
I could talk forever about that child. We sent her four patchwork
quilts and crocheted her a beautiful bedspread for Christmas. They
are coming back for a visit in June and we are going to bring them
to see you. Her children call Dora and me Granny Annie and
Granny Dora."

Miss Annie, speaking of the farm, said: "Well, honey, since we have diversified crops; cotton, corn, peanuts, velvet beans, sugarcane.

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