~~~~~~~~~~ quilted by me Ma ~~~~~~~~~

I do not think of myself as a small person. I am almost five-foot-five, and weigh 128 pounds. I am small-boned, but not birdlike or delicate. My sense of myself is of standing solidly on high-arched smallish feet beneath a curved hip section. My hands are relatively minuscule, but solid.

Once at the Calgary Zoo, Farmbeau asked me if I thought I was the same size as one of the tigers. I said yes. He laughed. “That thing weighs 1000 pounds! You’re nowhere near its size.”

~~~~~ new nightie, new bedspread ~~~~~

In Kelowna, it was 100 degrees F in the shade that day we worked with Biff, and every other day we were there, too, but maybe one. I relate to the suffering, Beth. We never wanted to leave Suzanne and Biff's air-conditioned home.

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