After my mother died three years ago (see “Spare Every Expense, Except One,” October 10, 2008), my sister Lucy kept discovering interesting things she had left behind. One of the most fascinating was a do-it-yourself autobiography that must have been given to her (it was definitely not something she would have bought for herself). Called The Book of Myself, it is a blank di (...)
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Mother Knew Best
AND USUALLY KEPT IT TO HERSELF
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Lovely reflection.
Kind, compassionate, selfless. Pondering these things in her heart. Contemplative. Run silent, run deep. Could recite Shakespeare and the Bible. Speak no evil. Could keep a secret. No gossip. No wonder Jo loved her. Of course, she would never have made it on a tell-all talk show. So? To talk or not to talk, that is the question.