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    CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

    Aug 26, 2022 4 minutes

    I enjoyed reading Our View in the January/February 2022 issue. It was my first GRIT magazine!

    One of my brothers used to walk up and down the Ripley-Butler county line road to deliver the GRIT newspaper to our neighbors. It sold for 10 cents at that time.

    As a child raised in a large family in southeast Missouri, I’m familiar with homemade quilts. My mother would warm up a blanket by the King heater and run into the cold bedroom, where my two sisters and I shared a full-sized bed, as we laid there shivering. She’d wrap us up from chin to toe. On top of that, she’d add several homemade quilts. Oh, how toasty that felt! I can still feel my

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