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AMY SMITH LINTON

Mumsie

12/12/2014

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As a girl, she had a horse named Tommy -- a big, flea-bit gray -- and a smart dog named Toasty. She broke a wrist doing some rodeo-style trick-riding on Tommy once -- an injury that happened quickly and faded nearly from memory, except as a lesson to pass along about youthful foolishness with horses.

She loved her boy-cousins, loved visiting her grandparents at the farm in Springfield, loved a book called The Swish of the Curtain. 

Although I never knew any of these things first-hand, her memories are vivid for me:  her embarrassment at how her slip shows in her 8th-grade school portrait, her wonderment at first putting on a pair of eye-glasses, the pleasure she felt in having a shiny copper penny tucked into each of her penny-loafers.
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The sacred roster of good dancers from high school, the horsey adventures with best-friend Sue, the thrill of getting her own first apartment and a sports-car -- I inherited these adventures from my mother. Like the bone-structure and the need for glasses. As well as this wordy impulse to turn incidents into epic.



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Lois
12/12/2014 01:02:27 am

Great pic- and story!

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Amy
12/13/2014 12:37:23 am

Thank you Lois!

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george a.
12/12/2014 10:33:00 am

Tell us about the sports car.

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Amy
12/13/2014 12:48:43 am

Oh George!

It was a 1956 MG, I believe -- wire wheels, sassy back end, not the jalopy of the 53, not the Midget look of 1962... To open the doors, you had to reach in and pull on a wire inside the door. Probably to put a halt to the road-racing, my grandfather bought the car from Mumsie, so I took a few rides in it as a kid. Watch this space for further details...

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george a.
12/16/2014 03:07:57 am

An MGA, then. I had several of those is various states of disrepair. Yep, no exterior door handles to clutter the stylish lines. My bug eye sprite: <http://mid-atlanticmusings.blogspot.com/2011/06/xenopus.html> has a little lever inside the doors to achieve the same end.

Aunt Bonnie
12/12/2014 01:15:14 pm

It is the small facts about your mom that I remember the most. Thanks for reminding me.

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Amy
12/13/2014 12:49:43 am

Thanks Aunt Bonnie -- Me too. Glad to share a few of those funny little details!

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Wow!
12/13/2014 01:57:00 am

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Bonnie Burns
12/16/2014 08:00:24 am

I unsubscribed by accident. So here I am again!!

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Amy
12/16/2014 01:38:01 pm

Well welcome back!

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