Reply #127: I wouldn't say she's obsessed or anything, she just thought we went from...

[Burma Jones]

the best of times to the worst of times pretty fast...She does refer to Bush as "that drug fiend".....

She grew up in rural Tennessee, family of sharecroppers, picked cotton, married my Grandfather, gave birth to my Mom, moved to Gary Indiana. My Grandfather ran booze for Al Capone and was a bookie, so my Grandmother tells us stories of cops banging at the door and her leaving via the fire escape.....

She told me, in 1996, that she thought the country was in as good a shape as she had ever seen it. Now....well....of course, she's one of the old line Democrats, New Dealer, won World War II. My Mom worked for NASA, so she took some extra pride in the Apollo program.

And she quit smoking.......at age 76.

Side note, she was married to both my Maternal as well as my Paternal Grandfathers. My Mom's Dad died in 1966 and my Dad's folks divorced in 1967. In 1970, she married my Dad's Dad. It made my Parents' divorce a little more awkward than it could have been......