Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Breads

My maternal grandmother was the daughter of the great-grandmother I wrote about yesterday and her daddy was the Church of Christ man she married. He died when I was very young, around 3 maybe and I remember him vaguely in my life. Apparently his daddy was a dentist in Tennesee who supposedly created the first false teeth gum that was soft but his partner stole his idea and received credit for it. or that's what I've been told. He also told my grandmother the story about the men on the porch talking about their neighbor(who was a good whistler) and the moral of the story is If you can't say something nice about someone , don't say anything at all. For the longest I thought the story was only in my family but I heard someone else tell the story several years ago and I realized it was handed down in other families too.

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