not usually interested in people unless they’re about to pass over. She hovered around your daddy for an entire month before he died.” I recognized the woman then and let out a little squeak in spite of myself. Standing there in the living room in her fox stole was the regal former first lady, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised to see Mrs. Roosevelt. She moved in with my mother right after Daddy passed, so I heard about her antics nearly every day during the last nineteen years of Mama’s life. And I had no reason to believe they’d parted company. Still, there are
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