1. When my mother had to buy a new vegetable peeler, she would take a potato to the store to test it out first.
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2. She asked me once if I preferred to spell it "grey" or "gray." She liked grey.
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3. In the summer of 69, we watched her walk down a beach with an intense and unfamiliar stride. When we asked her why she was walking like that, she said she was trying to imagine what it was like for the astronauts to walk on the moon.
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When my father's brother went bankrupt and called asking if he could come to stay with his 12 children, Dad tried to stall for one day so they could get enough blankets and mattresses organized, Mom said: "Tell him to come TONIGHT"
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5. She liked to send notes to strangers whose houses she walked by. She would compliment them on their gardens or how beautiful their Christmas decorations were.
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