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Article: Marmalade.(Short Story)
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- Highlights for Children
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Every once in a while my great-uncle Waldo gets into a reminiscing mode. This morning it happened at breakfast. He picked up a knife with his knuckly fingers, spread marmalade on his toast, gave a chuckle, and began:
Whenever I spread marmalade, I think of my mother. She was a wonderful woman, a five-foot-tall angel.
She even befriended a skunk.
One day she was out back picking beans when she turned to see a skunk no more than a yard away. Well sir, do you think she panicked? Think she worried that the creature would spray his scent all over her and the beans?
She did not.
There was a reason for that. You see, this skunk had ...