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Birthday: April 1

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MOULTRIE, Georgia
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Mah Jongg Garden	120020
Alu's Revenge	89940
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Type Writer	1300
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I am 73 years old; I have been a widow for nearly 25 years. Although I still miss my wonderful husband I live a quiet but happy life. I have 2 daughters, 4 grandchildren and one great grand child Before I retired I was the director of a day care center with 80 children; it was a great job, very demanding but very rewarding. I keep very busy in general, I take courses in the Internet, I am always learning something, I know it is never too late to learn

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Reading, writing, poetry, taking internet course, making dolls (all kind of dolls) occasional volunteering, gardening and crafts in general,

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CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

I wrote this as an assignment from the Writing Memoir Group

No packaged food in my childhood memories.

I don’t remember to have seen packaged foods when I was a little girl, when mom took us to the market, there were very few packaged items, they were mainly in big sacks, like flour, sugar, salt, oatmeal, but the rest of the staples were in big barrels and you could buy different type of beans, lentils, etc. by the kilo, even the cheese was in humongous blocks.

What is fresh in my memory is that when we children came home from playing or from school, before we opened the door we heard the rhythmic sound of my mother making home made tortillas; the “clap, clap, clap”, sounded like music to our ears, when the tortillas were made, mom made tacos, she filled the tortillas with some meat left over from the day before, topped them with cheese, lettuce and salsa picante; and rolled them tight, for dessert we had delicious baked sweet jams with honey and cinnamon. I never heard anyone of us saying we didn’t want that, in fact we ate them so fast that we were told to slow down, if there were some tortillas left, they were spread in a cooking sheet to dry, later on, mom put them in the oven to make tostadas, when they were ready she spread in each some refried beans, lettuce, cheese and guacamole, what could be easier and tastier than that? Mom had to make sure to use the leftovers because we didn’t have a refrigerator, just an ice box, I still remember a man coming once a week to deliver a huge block of ice so we could save some of the perishable food. Of course, lots of the Mexican cuisine can be very elaborate, but it those years, and with so many kids, simple tacos and tostadas were just right. Well, you will have to excuse me, but I am getting hungry, let me run to the freezer to see what I can find. Maybe some Old El Paso TV dinner?

Added: November 15, 2009
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