1950s Archive

Roughing it with Gramp

Part XI

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Mamie said to me, “So you and Esme are going to get married?”

“So we think,” I said. “In about ten years.”

(“He is a sweet little boy,” said Mamie.

Which didn't seem the way to talk about a future son-in-law.

On the way to the hotel Mama said, “So baby boy is leaving the nest?”

Gramp, taking off his shoes to rub his big toes, said, “I hope he makes all the mistakes I made with women. looking back, only the mistakes seem to have been fun.”

Looking back now, I can see I never had the wideness, the deepness, to make all of Cramp's mistakes. But of the little I tried-it has been fun at chat.

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