On February 6th-less than six weeks ago-I received an email responding to a letter I wrote asking for information about the grandmother I never knew. I was so surprised to get a response from a woman I later learned is my father's baby sister. I was delighted to hear from her and we spent the next few weeks getting to know my father's long lost family. Unfortunately, we found them too late to meet my father's mother, but I have learned many things about her life. Among them, I was introduced to the woman who was her cousin and best friend all her life. Mrs. Essie Mae Larry is in her 90s. She no longer wears the latest fashions or covets new Chryslers as they roll off Detroit assembly lines, but she amazes me with her every word, and especially with her stories about how she and her three first cousins lived their lives to the fullest and lit up the streets from Macon, Georgia, to the Motor City. She also allowed me to copy this picture of her with my grandmother and her best girl, Bennie Lee in Bibb County circa 1941.
It's an 8 x 8 modification of a 12 x 12 page by Becky Fleck created with Basic Grey pattern paper and Bazzill cardstock.
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