Mom smiling, aunt Janie Ruth staring. Aunt Janie Ruth was always doing things for people as an adult. She made candy for the holidays and gave it to folks. Mom thinks her sea foam candy was perfect. I know she cooked some good gravy and biscuits and stewed potatoes. Mom always put eveybody else's needs ahead of her own. Ask anyone, they'll tell you. She was like that as a child, too. Dad's mom, Grandma Smith, told me that the children were all riding on some kind of farm equipment and something swung and hit the children and knocked some of them off. Little Annie Laura was trying to take care of everyone else, making sure that they were all OK, but Grandma said that Annie Laura was the one who was hurt, with blood running down the back of her head....and she didn't even know she was hurt. That is the way Grandma told it to me. This was Grandma Smith who told me this. She eventually became mom's mother in law. Annie Laura would find herself taking care of Grandma Smith, too. Always taking care of the needs of others, just as predicted when she was a little girl.
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