Your Favorite Childhood Memory

[Jet]

I have a lot of great childhood memories and my grandmother's house is one of them. I grew up there and had some of the best times of my life. My grandmother was married 3 times and had nine children. She was widowed three times and raised my mother and aunts and uncles working two jobs. At first, the 10 of them lived in a smaller 3-bedroom house. My grandmother traded $1.00 with an elderly couple for the house above. One dollar. The old couple couldn't handle the house or the steps so they moved into my grandmother's 3-bedroom house and my grandmother moved into their house for a hundred pennies? God, it was simple and wonderful then— in the early 50s. I have a very special love for my grandmother and there were no better times than all of us together in her house. Years later, I wrote and delivered her eulogy. "I wouldn't give you one penny for the culture, the technology or the lifestyles of today. I would give millions, if I could, to be 10 years old again in the backyard of my grandmother's house on some crisp morning, when the sun shone differently."