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It Was Never The Right Time To Have A Party
In her memoirs Doris Hoss wrote about growing up during the Great
Depression, when times were hard. She said "My family was poor. We
had very little to eat. Then my grandfather died and my grandmother came
to live with us, and there was even less for each one to eat. But she was
a beautiful person and we enjoyed her very much."
She says, "I particularly remember Christmas. We would have very
few things and very small things under our Christmas tree, but always
something. And we would open our gift, and then have Christmas dinner. And
then my grandmother would say, "Let me show you my pretty
things." She would take me into her room where she had an old chest
she had brought when she came to live with us and she would open it up and
start to lift out one little thing after another that she had saved all
during her life."
"The thing she was most proud of was a beautiful linen table
cloth. It had eight napkins with it. She had the table cloth and napkins
wrapped in very soft paper and she would unwrap these things so lovingly
and spread out this table cloth and tell me all about how someday we would
have a big dinner with a linen table cloth and eight matching napkins. And
then she would fold it up and put it away."
"Many years later, my grandmother died." We went through her
things after the funeral and there was the tablecloth and the eight
matching napkins, so yellowed now with age that no one could use them.
They had never, ever, been used. I thought about how many ordinary meals
might have been more special had we eaten them off a linen table cloth
with matching napkins. I was sad because my grandmother never found the
right time to have a party."
Title: It Was Never The Right Time To Have A Party
Article Author: Rev. Kevin Tully
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