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Bertha Venation

(21,484 posts)
Wed Jul 3, 2013, 09:08 AM Jul 2013

Just found out that my mother's best friend died in 1999.

My mother died in 1974, when I was 11 years old. Shortly thereafter, Sharon, my mother's best friend, showed up to take care of us. She had a husband (who was one of the biggest pricks I've ever known) and two young daughters. Eventually we all moved into a big house together.

I remember Sharon's method of making meat-stuffed manicotti was to stuff the shells before they were cooked. The result was skinny meat sticks inside big pasta tubes. I remember seeing her put ground beef on a salad and thinking that was weird. I remember her saying that she didn't dress provocatively because she wanted men to wonder what was under the clothes.

We weren't particularly close, but I think she did okay by us.

A few months ago her youngest daughter, Jody, and I became FB friends. Last night we had a chat session, and I found out that Sharon died in 1999 of a brain aneurysm, one week short of her 54th birthday.

I had always wondered about this family. I'm glad to learn that Jody has three kids, including a ten-year-old named Sharon.

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