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# My Southern Heart

From the heart of a Southern girl living in the Midwest

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- [Fresh starts](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2022/04/17/6680/) - Two weeks ago, I sat down to write a long overdue post in My Southern Heart, the blog I've been writing since 2007. If you read my blog from 2007-2012, the posts from my life in Oregon have been archived in a separate location. I appreciate your following my blog through this journey and invite
- [Growing older...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2019/11/06/growing-older/) - I remember the beginning. Fifty-three years ago, when we were all young, life stretched out ahead of us. Children in our future...grandchildren beyond that. A path we were laying out in neat little stones leading to what we thought would be our future. Even then, time seemed like it would go on forever. I know
- [The bench...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2019/10/14/the-bench/) - I saw an advertisement in our local Facebook Marketplace the other day for a red bench. Amish made, sturdy, in excellent condition and only three twenty-dollar bills. The memories started flooding in. I'll have a birthday soon and my memory isn't always that reliable but I just knew that, somewhere in time, we'd had a
- [Thirteen years...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2019/10/10/thirteen-years/) - Thirteen years have passed between these two photographs. This little angel is now fifteen and a half years old. This cute as a button toddler turned into a beautiful young lady with a giving, tender heart. She’s very smart, quite talented and a whole lot taller than her grandmother. She plays the piano and the
- [My Southern Heart again...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2019/10/07/my-southern-heart-again/) - If you read my blog, My Southern Heart, from May 2008 to August 2012, then you're going to think this looks totally different. You're right - it does. All the entries from my time in Oregon have been archived and I'll have a book printed just for me. Five hundred pages full of reflections, photos,
- ["I'll Go To My Grave Loving You"...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2014/07/23/ill-go-to-my-grave-loving-you/) - The year was 1975. My sweet, gentle Dad had heard this song on the radio and asked me if I could find the record for him. He loved my Mama dearly and he loved this song. At the time, I was not a fan of country music – and definitely not a fan of the
- [The sixth day of August...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2013/08/06/the-sixth-day-of-august/) - There are some days in life that are just bittersweet…today is one of those days. On a sweet note, today is Cindy's birthday. She is my sister Gerry’s firstborn. Cindy is beautiful with a heart of gold…just like her late Mom. She has an ever ready smile and a wonderful sense of humor. We are always laughing when
- [A mystery in Scotland...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2013/08/04/a-mystery-in-scotland/) - As published in Sweet Journey Home... I wonder if the same thing that makes me wish I’d been an FBI agent is the same deep thing that makes me love a mystery? Finding clues, sorting them out and solving a mystery is more than just a challenge – it’s actually intriguing. This time, I’m talking
- [My memories of the Fourth of July...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2013/07/04/my-memories-of-the-fourth-of-july/) - When my three sisters and I began our family history search ( inspired and instigated by my oldest sister Dot), we made several family history journeys...with so much laughter and fun as the four of us traveled together. Sometimes, my niece Sharon accompanied us and there was even more laughter. One of those trips was
- [Fifty years ago and a convertible...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2013/04/10/fifty-years-ago-and-a-convertible/) - It was a beautiful day in Memphis…May 1963. We had just graduated from high school, and from the smiles on our faces, we were happy about that. We all piled into this Morris Minor convertible and someone snapped the photo...magically capturing a moment in time. There were applications for college or other plans for futures already
- [Remembering Daddy...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2013/02/17/remembering-daddy/) - Today is Daddy's birthday. I am wondering if birthdays are celebrated in Heaven. If so - and I'm inclined to think they are - then Mama, Daddy, my sisters Dot and Gerry, Bill - my husband of 39 years and his parents Frank and Bobbie, my maternal and paternal grandparents and all the host of family and friends
- [Happy Birthday, Mama...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2012/07/03/happy-birthday-mama/) - Mama was born on the 4th of July. Every year, the family gathered for a picnic and cookout with all the trimmings in her honor. In later years, it was held at my oldest sister Dot's house because she had a swimming pool. Memphis is hot in the summertime and the kids loved the pool.
- [Legacy...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2012/02/17/legacy-2/) - Today is my Daddy’s birthday and I’m missing him. He was born on February 17, 1905…the youngest of seven children. His father and grandfather before him were farmers in the rich farmland of the Mississippi Delta. With a legacy bestowed by their Scottish immigrant ancestors, they had strong work ethics, Christian values and believed in
- [Happy birthday, my sweet boy...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2012/01/12/happy-birthday-my-sweet-boy/) - I was there when you arrived HOME from Ethiopia after a long two day journey with your Mom and Dad. You must have been tired, but you didn't cry. You carefully looked us all over - your new family - from the safety of Mommy's arms. Those dark eyes danced and then you smiled, revealing
- [Fifty-five years and a lock of hair...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2012/01/02/fifty-five-years-and-a-lock-of-hair/) - A box came down from the attic today that I knew held some treasures. There were letters from my older son and my daughter when they were away at college. There were letters I had written to my parents after we moved to Kentucky. There was a card to my older son at college written by my third grade son
- [Behold, the Lamb of God...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2011/12/21/behold-the-lamb-of-god/) - Do you remember the first time you saw your newborn baby's face after nine long months of waiting? I do. I remember all three of their precious faces. I remember checking tiny little eyelashes and soft fine eyebrows. I counted baby fingers and toes. I marveled at their exquisite noses and tiny little ears. The amazing faces I'd
- [One amazing life...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2011/10/18/one-amazing-life-2/) - In memory of my sister, Sarah Geraldine “Gerry” McGregor Harden. August 1, 1930 – October 13, 2011 I was in Chicago when the sad news came. My sister had lost her courageous battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). She was, at that moment, in Heaven…surrounded by a host of loved ones who’d gone before.
- [Father's Day...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2011/06/19/fathers-day/) - Today is Father's Day and my mind is full of memories. I was 45 years old when I lost my Dad at the age of 86. I look back now and realize that forty-five was young to lose my father, but my children would be younger still when they lost their Dad. Life is precious...and altogether
- [Time traveling...again](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2011/03/02/time-traveling-again/) - I've spent the past few days attempting to restore all the photos to my blog that were "lost" in the process of changing servers recently. I'm about half way finished with this tedious task! During this long process, I've reread many of my old posts. Thought I would share this one again. It was originally published on
- [Down memory lane...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2010/10/31/down-memory-lane/) - Growing up on Victor Drive, Halloween was a fun time. We dressed like hobos or some other easy costume and went "trick or treating". Walking around those tree-lined blocks, we'd gather homemade popcorn balls wrapped in cellophane, hand-dipped cinnamon redhot apples or caramel apples...and lots of candy bars. We never ventured too far from home. It
- [First day in Heaven...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2010/10/29/first-day-in-heaven/) - I've been thinking about Heaven since yesterday. My eighty seven year old "second mother" of almost four decades went to be with the Lord yesterday morning in Memphis, Tennessee. She had been really sick for the past two weeks, and we had all prayed so hard for a complete recovery. Our Heavenly Father answered those
- [Mama and the pizza...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2010/09/12/mama-and-the-pizza/) - It was the late 1950's. We were living in the house on Victor Drive with the sunny windows and the knotty pine dining room with the corner china cabinets. It was a time of early rock and roll, dancing and pizza. Our first introduction to pizza was from George, a big, strong, dark-haired cajun planter
- [The paper trail...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2010/09/10/the-paper-trail-tracks-in-time-mike/) - When I was younger, and the family members with most of the answers were still living, I was too busy to care. I was a young wife with three children to raise, a home to take care of and a nursing career. It never occurred to me to search for "ancestors" or even to ask
- [The Mamie Road Mystery...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2010/08/02/the-mamie-road-mystery/) - It had been fifty-five years since we had lived in that little house on Mamie Road. It was bound to have changed - together with the neighborhood which had been in the countryside when we lived there. During my recent visit home to the South, Sharon and I both wanted to visit that house again
- [Happy Birthday, Sis...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2010/08/01/happy-birthday-sis/) - Today is my sister's eightieth birthday. She is celebrating with the friends and family who are blessed to be there...I wish I could. Thankfully, I was able to spend time with her during my recent visit home to the South. We had a wonderful time as always. She gave Sharon and me another lesson on
- [Sweet tea and mysteries...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2010/07/16/sweet-tea-and-mysteries-2/) - My sisters, brothers-in-law, two of my nieces and I were sitting around the table after we finished lunch at my sister’s house in their small town in Mississippi. I was enjoying my second glass of sweet tea and the conversation that I would remember and miss when I returned home to Oregon. As I’ve shared
- [Sweet moment in time...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2010/06/04/sweet-moment-in-time/) - I remember the day this picture was taken...just like it was yesterday. Actually it was late June, twelve years ago. Our family had rented a large oceanfront house in the village of Duck, North Carolina, on the Outer Banks. The house was perfect with an almost floor to ceiling bank of windows and a spectacular
- [Mama and the violets...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2010/05/24/mama-and-the-violets/) - African violets will always remind me of Mama. She loved them. She loved growing them...along with her peonies, daylilies, daisies, roses, their large vegetable garden and several varieties of fruit trees. She loved taking a "cutting" (a leaf at the steam) and creating a whole new plant - or propagating them. Mama never took
- [Reflections...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2010/05/23/reflections/) - One afternoon during my granddaughters' recent visit, I was sitting at the dining room table with them. The table was covered with fabric, thread, patterns and my portable Singer sewing machine. I was teaching my eight and almost ten year old granddaughters the basics of sewing - how to find the grain of the fabric,
- [Easter is coming...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2010/03/30/easter-is-coming/) - I couldn't help but think about Mary, the mother of Jesus, this past week as I looked into the face of a beautiful, sleeping baby and held him in my arms. Could you even imagine holding the Saviour in your arms? Mary knew who He was. The angel had appeared to her before conception and she knew this was,
- [All those questions...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2010/03/29/all-those-questions/) - I was born when my parents were forty-one years old...the last of four daughters. Daddy was the youngest of seven children, born when his parents were older. I never knew my Daddy's parents. They both died before I was born. My mother's parents died when I was very young, so I really never knew them.
- [Happy Birthday, Daddy...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2010/02/17/happy-birthday-daddy/) - As I remember Daddy's birthday today, I thought it might be a good time to share a few pages or memories from the family history book which my sister Dot and I were working on before we lost her to leukemia. I want to finish this book. I really do...because that's exactly what she would
- [Sweet child of mine...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2010/01/10/sweet-child-of-mine/) - Our youngest child arrived ten years after his sister...a precious baby boy with strawberry blonde hair and beautiful green eyes. From day one, it seemed he was carried around in someone's arms or had someone to entertain him...or someone he entertained. He never met a stranger. When he started talking, it was in paragraphs. He
- [The Christmas Skates...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/12/02/the-christmas-skates/) - Christmas was always a wonderful time on Victor Drive. Not because there were elaborate gifts or fancy decorations, because there were neither of those, but because we were all together. There wasn't a lot of money, and so I knew better than to ask for anything expensive. It was simply out of the question. Roller
- [The Heart Remembers...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/05/10/mothers-day-2009-the-heart-remembers/) - It was August of 1994 and I had just lost my Mother at the age of 90. It was a deeply sad time for me and my three sisters and our families. I was working full-time and still had an eighth grader at home, so I did my best to keep life steady and "normal".
- [Our Amazing Baby Girl...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/05/08/our-amazing-baby-girl/) - It was December 1969 and our special Christmas gift arrived two weeks early...a beautiful baby girl. She was born fifteen and one-half months after her big brother. We were blessed and so thankful to have two healthy babies. What a wonderful time this was in our life... Enjoy the pictorial video below of the first
- [Buying our first house...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/05/01/buying-our-first-house/) - After the birth of our first child in 1968, we bought our first house. It was small...maybe a total of 1,000 square feet. It had a living room, dining room, small kitchen, three bedrooms, one bathroom, a detached one-car garage and a fenced backyard. There was a redbud tree in the front yard which had
- [It seems like yesterday...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/04/24/it-seems-like-yesterday/) - Memories are strange and funny things. Try to remember what you had for dinner three nights ago, and there's only a vague recollection; but the memories from forty years ago are fresh and clear. I hope you enjoy a brief look at the first few years of our firstborn's life. It really does seem like
- [Happy Easter...Jesus is alive!](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/04/12/happy-easterjesus-is-alive/) - I can only imagine what the disciples and Jesus' other followers must have felt that Friday after the crucifixion. They had watched as Jesus had been condemned by Pilate. They had watched as Jesus had been forced to carry the rough, heavy cross along the Via Dolorosa and had fallen three times under the weight of it. The
- [Welcome to the world, baby boy...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/03/11/welcome-to-the-world-baby-boy/) - It was August of 1968...and time for two important milestones in our life...Bill's graduation and the birth of our first child. It had been fun preparing the nursery. I made soft yellow window curtains in a sweet nursery print, and we bought a maple rocking chair that would be with us for years to come.
- [Spring snowfall...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/02/03/spring-snowfall/) - It was March 22, 1968. Sixteen inches of snow had fallen, and the city was covered in an amazing blanket of white...a rare sight for Memphis. After Bill's brief resident engineer appointment in Arkansas, we had returned home to Memphis and rented a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, upstairs apartment. We would need the second bedroom
- [Decisions...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/02/02/decisions/) - There is a bank of memories for each of us. Sometimes, we have to reach pretty far back to retrieve them...but the memories are still there, layered in years of time. In this case, I'm remembering an early Spring morning when I made the decision to "drop out" of college as a SENIOR. I had
- [Our first dinner party...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/01/20/our-first-dinner-party/) - Forty-one years later, and I still remember our first...slightly disastrous...dinner party. Thankfully, I was able to laugh then with everyone else and still think it's funny. We had invited Bill's parents, sister and grandmother to be our first dinner guests. Bill and Penny cutting up as usual. Lots of laughter. Frank, Bobbie and Granny. 1967
- [Christmas 1966...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/01/20/christmas-1966/) - It was our first Christmas together, and we were starting our own traditions. Christmas would always be special in our family... Through the years, there have been many elaborate, beautiful Christmas trees...but none quite so special as this Charlie Brown Christmas tree. All that little tree had were colorful paper balls and tinsel. I
- [My twenty-first birthday...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/01/19/my-twenty-first-birthday/) - It was December 1, 1966...our birthday. We had been married since September. It was my twenty-first birthday and Bill's twenty-third. Looking at the photo here, I'm wondering how many candles were on that cake...quite a few! Funny how clothing and hair styles come full circle. I wish I had this ensemble I was wearing then
- [Our first home...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/01/15/our-first-home/) - Our first home was a small, rented yellow brick duplex on a well-kept, tree-lined street. It was located about fifteen minutes from Memphis State where we were both students. It had newly refinished wood floors, a small living room, dining room, kitchen, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom. There were plenty of windows which let in
- [The beginning of a lifetime...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/01/14/the-beginning-of-a-lifetime/) - It was Autumn of 1965 and I was falling in love...I just didn't realize it at the time. I thought Bill and I were just very close friends - soulmates - who spent as much time together as possible, sharing our deepest thoughts and feelings. I was still hearing from Ross who was at sea
- [Shadows and highlights...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2009/01/13/shadows-and-highlights/) - As the new year has come and gone, I've been thinking about, and struggling with, how to tell the rest of the story... Telling a story is much like painting a picture...only with words. My grandchildren create the most wonderful paintings...quite magical paintings actually. However, my grandchildren haven't learned about shadows just yet. Their paintings
- [September 1965...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/12/13/september-1965/) - It was Autumn again. A whole year had passed since I had first come to Memphis State. Things seemed different now...no longer the strangeness of being new. It had been an eventful summer and one in which I'd grown a great deal. I'd been challenged and come away the better for it. I thought often
- [Our birthday...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/12/01/our-birthday/) - Today is the first day of December...our birthday, Bill's and mine...and, perhaps, the best time to begin telling our story. The first time I ever saw his face was on an Autumn afternoon in 1964. I was sitting on the sofa by the fireplace in the BSU with some friends, when he walked in the
- [Traditions...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/29/traditions/) - Mama cherished the holidays each year, because it meant we would all be together once again. Of course, there were other times throughout the year that the family gathered in one place, but the holidays were special. First, there was the Thanksgiving feast and just a few weeks later...Christmas. Sometime during the week or so
- [Mama learns to drive...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/25/mama-learns-to-drive/) - Mama was a wonderful homemaker, Southern cook and an artist with a brush, needle and thread. Although, she could read music by "shaped notes", she sang and played the piano and organ "by ear". She had a wonderful sense of humor and a quick and ready smile. For the most part, I think she was
- [Saying goodbye...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/24/saying-goodbye/) - The last semester of my freshman year was almost over. I had finally accepted the fact that I would have to transfer to a state university there in Memphis for my sophmore year. Financially, there was no other way. I could work through the summer and save enough for my books and tuition and live
- [Roses in a fruit jar...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/21/roses-in-a-fruit-jar/) - Spring had come and with it, the warm days that felt like an early summer. The campus was ablaze with color...beautiful pink and red azaleas, flowering dogwood and fragrant magnolias. Yellow daffodils lined the historical brick streets in the nearby town and all the brick walkways across campus. Everything on campus seemed in high gear.
- [Feeling the wind on the end of a string...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/21/feeling-the-wind-on-the-end-of-a-string/) - After meeting Jimmy, life on campus changed. He made sure I was never lonely or bored...not that I had time to be bored. With his energy and pure passion for life, he celebrated everything. One day, not long after we'd met, Jimmy asked me if I'd ever flown a kite. I had to think for
- [Meeting Jimmy...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/20/meeting-jimmy/) - Classes resumed after Christmas at a furious pace. The professors piled on the assignments making up for lost time. I was struggling in botany and hated it. There didn't seem to be enough time to get it all done, not with working three hours each day, and I had no choice about that. Looking back,
- [Home for Christmas](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/20/home-for-christmas/) - The days on the calendar flew quickly by. Thanksgiving had come and gone, and I was looking forward to a nice long break at Christmas. I was tired and "run down", to use one of Mama's expressions, after a bout with strep throat and a high fever. I had even managed to spend a few
- [First Impressions](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/19/first-impressions/) - The days immediately preceding my freshman year of college were bittersweet ones. My heart was still tender and nothing was ready for my leaving home. Since I'd given up my scholarship, it meant Daddy having to get a bank loan for my meals, housing, books and tuition; and it meant my having to work on
- [Seventeen...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/15/seventeen/) - The first time I saw Josh Lucas in Sweet Home Alabama, I was propelled back in time...as swiftly and surely as any time machine could have managed. It was June 1963 all over again and a Saturday night in Memphis. Two sisters and friends from church, Diane and Yvonne, and I had just arrived a
- [A moment in time...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/13/a-moment-in-time/) - Forty-six years ago we were standing there smiling...the shutter was pressed...and a moment in time was captured forever. It seems to me I can remember that day. I'm not positively sure where the three of us (L-R: Nancee, Dianne and Kathy) were going, but I believe it was the Cotton Carnival. It would have been
- [Chicken and dumplins'...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/11/chicken-and-dumplins/) - Just as music can take us back to another time, so can the memory of certain foods...the sweet aromas coming from the kitchen of our childhood... Mama's kitchen was painted a robin's egg blue with crisp white trim and white curtains. The cabinets, stove, refrigerator and clothes washer were white. There was no dishwasher -
- [Early morning quilting...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/08/early-morning-quilting/) - After the harvest was over and the canning was done, winter signaled the time for Mama to begin quilting again. I remember her piecing together some of the most intricate designs. An artist with a needle and thread, she made some of the most beautiful quilts. Once Mama had pieced together the quilt top, Daddy
- [The boy across the street...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/07/the-boy-across-the-street/) - I can't remember when Larry and his family first moved in across the street...Larry, his older brother, two younger brothers and his parents. Not long after they moved there, his Dad died suddenly. I don't remember if his Mom went to work after that, but I'm assuming that she did. I do remember seeing Larry
- [Velveeda...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/05/velveeda/) - I spent the summer of 1962 working as a volunteer "Candy Striper" at what was then John Gaston Hospital, now known as the Regional Medical Center of Memphis. I was sixteen years old and had just completed my junior year in high school. There were only two choices for traveling to the hospital each morning.
- [A Saturday in Memphis...with Elvis](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/05/a-saturday-in-memphis-with-elvis/) - It was February 25, 1961 - a bitter cold Saturday in Memphis - and one I'll never forget. It was the day of the "Special Matinee Memphis Charity Show, starring Elvis Presley"! I had just turned 15 in December and, like every other teenage girl in America, I loved Elvis and his music! My 15
- [Four sisters...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/11/02/four-sisters/) - When I was born, my three sisters were 18, 15 and 11 years old. My parents were forty-one at the time. No doubt, I was their last hope for a son, but it was not to be. There would always be the four sisters. Even with the age difference, we have always been close. My
- [Moving to Victor Drive...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/10/31/moving-to-victor-drive/) - When I was about ten years old, my parents purchased a larger house about two miles away on Victor Drive. It wasn't a large house by any stretch of the imagination, maybe twelve hundred square feet at the most. In my memory, it was a white cottage with green shutters. In addition to an extra
- [All too soon...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/10/30/all-too-soon/) - The seasons came and went on Mamie Road...and the years with them. My Dad had a good job at a manufacturing plant; but like everyone else in the fifties, there wasn't a great deal of money. My mother was a wonderful cook and there was always plenty of good food on the table. She had
- [Summertime in Memphis 1950...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/10/29/summertime-in-memphis-1950/) - If I could turn the clock back here, it would be Summertime in Memphis, 1950. We were living on Mamie Road...then a tree-lined road on the outskirts of Memphis with small homes, large yards with beautiful flowers and vegetable gardens, friendly neighbors and a haven of safety for small children who loved to play outdoors.
- [Delta blues and cornbread sticks...](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/10/28/delta-blues-and-cornbread-sticks/) - Perhaps it's significant that I was born in the Delta of Mississippi, where the blues can be heard from the cotton fields to the Mississippi River. Music has always been such a part of my heart and soul. Granted, I'm thoughtful enough not to sing within anyone's earshot, but when I'm alone, I can belt
- [My Southern Heart...Memories](https://www.mysouthernheart.com/2008/10/26/my-southern-heart-memories/) - We each have them living deep within the recesses of our hearts and minds ~ memories that have been made one moment...one day...one event at the time. I have 62 years worth. Well, okay, maybe I can't remember THAT far back. Just like most of you, some of the memories I think I have are

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