Miss Lucy
We lived in Kalispell, Montana when
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I was a young child. We were poor dirt farmers.
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Daddy built us a house in the field behind
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my Grammys ranch. It seemed we were rootless,
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Daddy taking us somewhere, getting
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disillusioned and taking us someplace else.
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One day in town, at the Piggly Wiggly, I saw a man
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with a humped back. My Mama meted out lessons with
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a hand to the back of the head.
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I wasnt staring, Mama, I tried to placate.
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The man came over and introduced himself as
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Buzz Walters. He offered me a penny for
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candy and said to my Mama, Maam, she was just
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curious, and Im well used to that.
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Hate to think you punished her on my account.
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Seems like a nice little girl.
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My Daddy walked up just then shone his hate
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filled eyes on Buzz. Daddy was the jealous type.
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The men shook hands and Buzz got my daddy to
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talking. Told him to come by the shop anytime.
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The shop was a second-hand store
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on main street, which was the only street we had.
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As he was wont to do, Daddy grew restless living
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seven miles from the town. Buzz bought our house
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for a bit of cash and a line of credit at the shop.
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I loved the shop. It had dark corners, bicycles on
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the wall and high in the rafters were birds nests
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and the mansions of spiders. Buzz moved our house
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into town and squatted it on some empty land behind
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his house. Now we rented what we had owned.
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A few feet from the back door, ran a creek that ran
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for miles. I trapped frogs to live in a box
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next to my pallet in the earthen cellar.
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Buzz and his mother, Miss Lucy,
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lived in a tall, angled house with a crooked roof,
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just up the road from us. Miss Lucy was tetched.
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She nearly burned the house down three or four times.
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She threw her soiled drawers out the second story window.
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Once she gave me two beautiful, gauzy dresses so I could
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play dress-up.
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The town wondered why Buzz kept the difficult old woman
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in his home. I knew why. From my cellar window I could
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see the screened-in back porch of their house. Every night
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they sat together, and Miss Lucy stroked her sons
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humped back and kissed his work-worn cheeks.
Sherry Asbury worked in geriatrics for many years. Now she draws on her own aging for stories that explain basic facts in a human way.
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