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mistake. As my head whirled, I quickly dropped into a
chair.

Grandma looked at me with concern. “Are you all
right?”

“Just a little hot, I guess.”
Grandma frowned. “Why, when I was your age, I
worked ten times that many hours in the sun and didn’t
think twice about it.”
She then proceeded to tell me how hard she had
worked and how little they had. I had heard the stories
many times and didn’t believe half of them. Mostly I
just sat quietly while she cut a big slice of homemade
bread and slathered on some butter and a slice of
cheese. I had just about tuned out the story she was
telling me when I realized she was asking me a
question.
“Onion on that?”
I nodded. She pulled a large onion out of the
drawer and peeled it. Then she cut a couple of thick

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