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would pick it up and throw it again. New York is famous for ticker tape parades to celebrate something. Well, Huron celebrated with toilet paper. Jeanette was in a hurry. She never had been in a hurry since. Mom wanted me to stick around. Dr. Saxton (he was my doctor from '24 to '27) said I could stay. I had to put on a gown and mask, and then stand back where I couldn't see anything. Jeanette arrived.
Sometime after that you had your appendix out. Robert and I brought you home from the hospital in Howard Morris's Plymouth coupe. The roads were icy and Robert drove faster than I would have but we got home in good shape.
Later on mom had a major operation and another one after we got to Redfield. We moved out of Broadland in March 1952. The Grange had a little party for us. It turned out to be the whole darned community. I had expected a few Grange members but the Hall was packed.
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