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Note: emember thinking she must be one of the oldest people in the world at the time. She sat in a green Queen Anne style chair in my grandparents living room most of the time. I remember asking her very personal questions, such as what the wart on the side of her nose was, and how it came to be there. I don't remember the answer. I do remember asking her if she wanted to live forever. She told me that no she didn't because she would be too sick and unhappy. Once when I was very young I was pretending a can opener, my grandparents had mounted on the wall, was a crank style telephone. I was pretending to talk to my great grandmother on it, she was out somewhere at the time. Later that day my great grandmother told me she really enjoyed the talk we had had on the telephone. I was stunned, especially when she recounted the details of it! Unbeknownst to me, my grandmother had filled her in on the details. My sister Margaret was badly scared once, going upstairs and encountering Grandma Sharpe in her curlers and hair net. She screamed - Grandma Sharpe was not impressed. Grandma Sharpe was also not impressed when my cousin Derek, then about 5, found her chamber pot under her bed and carried it downstairs announcing to everyone assembled that he had found a "giants cup"! Barb Taylor, December 25, 1997
Note: I was twelve years old when my great grandmother Mary Sharpe (Mary Badham - Smith) died. I r
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