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Carol Perkins: Happy Birthday Mama Previous Column: Drop Your Drawers Click "Read More" for the address if you'd like to send a birthday card for Carol's Mom's 103rd. By Carol Perkins On March 10, 2024, my mother, Marguerite Reece Sullivan, will be 103 years old. Age isn't a subject she talks about very often except to wonder what in the world has kept her hanging on for so long. I tell her fondly that it is to worry me to death. (She is still the boss.) We laugh. Until last September, she was on her feet, taking rides through the countryside, getting her eye shot once every six weeks, and going to the beauty shop. Her lungs have slowed her down, now depending on oxygen around the clock. "I have this thing stuck in my nose," she says annoyed. My mother, however, is sharp as a tack. She keeps up with the Warriors (Curry), UK and UL. She tells, when prodded, stories of her youth, stories of my youth, and stories about the world changes. Her view is that the world may change, but people don't. She meant they are either good or bad. "We lived through the Depression, but it wasn't as hard on us because we had our own food," she recalls. Rufus and Betty (Strange) Reece left the Flat Rock community and bought a farm near Edmonton when she was twelve so the oldest could go to high school, with all nine graduating from high school and four from college. Her generation lived through WWII, and she worried when her brothers (four of them) went off to war: Russell, Bob, Ralph, and JW (Korean). She watched her "boyfriend" (my dad) leave for the Pacific and did not know when she'd see him again. (Five years later.) "Those were the hard times," she said. While fully capable of recalling every detail of her life, she has always lived in the present, keeping up with the lives of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, whom we Facetime weekly. "Text them," she'll say. She concerns herself with her brother next door (he's a hundred) and her other two siblings. She looks forward to drawing pictures for the notecards I want to print of her artwork. Of course, she is tired. Who wouldn't be, but she hasn't stopped thinking about life and the world. "Tell me what's going on," she says when I visit. She doesn't mean gossip. For her birthday, she doesn't ever want a big "do." She has never been one for the spotlight, however, if you want to send a card to 805 South Main Street, Edmonton, 42129 she would be grateful for your thoughts. You can contact Carol at carolperkins06@gmail.com. This story was posted on 2024-03-01 12:44:53
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