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Naughty child
became
‘good’ adult

From puge 20

Apparently my Granny and
1 had something clse in com:
mon You may tind this hard
ro beheve, bur f was a bir
naughty — when PE was voung
of course, not NEW, —- and |
was sonstandy doing cine in
my bedroom or hearing the
threatening smack of my
mother’s wooden spoon on
the kitchen counter. It used to
get me down, T hated being in
trouble; vet $was, constantly.

But T remember one day
when my Granny was over
and ! was in rouble tor some:

had spent a fair bic of time in
the woodshed gerting, a good

ing herself when she was
a young girl. ] always tigured
that as good a person as she
grew up to be, maybe there
was hope for me too.

As she got older, my
Granny's evesight started to
tail, and the handiwork she
abways did showed the signs of
it. Sill, she carried her wi
knicting basket with her every:
where, and although the
colour combinations of some
of her quilts got pretty inter-
esting, she never gave it up.

She died when she was 82,
just after the birth of my
daughter. She had been at my
house for dinner the night she
had her stroke, and in the
rush to get her to the hospital,
we forgot her knitting basket.
When she died F just put the
old basket away and forgot
about it.

But a couple of weeks ago
I decided to pull out that old
basket. I knew that it was still
full of squares she had knitted,
and there were enough to be
sewn together into a quilt. I
decided that would be a good
job for me. It was a way to
teel close to her, | thought.

When I pulled out her old
basket, maybe out of habit,
maybe because something else
drew me there, I reached into
the side pocket. Sure enough,
there were nwo toffee candies.
Bur just underneath the can-
dies was the purple amethyst
ring.

I took it our and put it on
my finger. It was hu;

could probably have fit it on
my big toe — but it was every
bit as beautiful as | remem
bered she was.

Pve already started sewing,
my Granny’s squares together.
It’s my job, | feel ic right
down to my boots. And, I've
taken ihe ring in to be sized. I
just know that f was meant to
find it, and I'm going to put
it to good use. When I’m fac-
ing something difficult, or I
teel the urge to be a lictle
naughty, Pm going to wear
that ring. I’m betting it will
give me the strength to be a
better person.

Failing that, Pll look like a
million bucks.

-tnumpers@svm patico.be.ca

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