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given up many times had it not been for my mother’s cheerful encouragement, good nursing, and fine sense of humor. Although my brother died just before his twenty-first birthday, he achieved some of the things he wanted to do most.

As a result of my mother’s careful management of an inheritance from my grandfather, my younger brother and I were both able to attend college and receive our degrees. It had always been Mom’s desire that we be well prepared to make our own livings.

Mom has an easier but a more lonesome life since my brother and I have moved away to establish homes of our own. Still, you could never find a busier person than my mother now that she has extra time for doing many of the things she enjoys most. My brother and I each have a young daughter, and sewing for them is one of Mom’s hobbies. We would drive many a mile for one of my mother’s delicious pies or cakes. There are many more