What y'all don' know is, I sound jus' like Aunt Bett.
Got her hair too. An' her shape (or lack thereof, since i most resemble a T square, but then so did she).
I reckon them wil'flowrs don' know th' diffrence, Shoe.
Here's a story for you:
Aunt Bett never had children, though she raised a young man who was an orphan, seems like there were family ties but I can't remember now. Anyway she had no children of her own. I had been away from the mountains for about 13 years or so when she died, and though I'd seen her fairly often during that time, I hadn't lived near her in all those years, school and then work had taken me to the Lexington/L'ville area. Anyway, I went back for the funeral.
As I stood beside the open coffin (the 'way of things' back then) some of her old friends kept looking at me and whispering among themselves. Finally one of them came up to me and said: "Now which one of 'em is you?"
Me: "Which one of what am I?"
She: "Well, I know Betty Ann ain't had no girls, but I sweah, you could pass for hers. Now jes' which one of her kin is you?"
I keep trying to live up to that.
Heh!
