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An around the world
trip tip from Annie--one small carry-on, an ample
raincoat with pockets, and Chinese restaurants from
Auckland to India, Athens to Paris, and London to New
York--food that was plentiful, freshly made, and
CHEAP. If you have access at all,
could you slip the volume of Flannery O'Connor's letters
out--maybe sent it to me with a card at Christmas--as I told
Dolly, I've lost not just Annie but al the "story lines" I
lived along with her. It's a great loss of a large chunk of
me. Mechanics were a mystery to
Annie--as much in 1952 as in 2002. When she informed fellow
teachers that her car trouble was a dead cell in her car
battery, she was morally indignant over having to buy a
whole new battery. "One cell Keppel" jokes occupied at least
a semester at Edgerton High School. An around the world trip tip
from Annie--one small carry-on, an ample raincoat with
pockets, and Chinese restaurants from Auckland to India,
Athens to Paris, and London to New York--food that was
plentiful, freshly made, and CHEAP. Luxury bothered her
conscience--as did the unexpected prosperity of her later
years. Pat Kurfman
Estes Park,
Colorado
The thought of Annie's house being "cleared" has been giving
me nightmares--it was so intensely intimate. I can picture
her sitting in our living room scared to death because she'd
just signed the papers to buy the property with Helge and
couldn't imagine owning anything--and what a
ramshackle it was before the deck and ramp, the kitchen, the
"apartment" bedroom and bath, revamping Cynthia's "burrow",
and tenting for termites--all done so gradually she couldn't
believe what the place was valued at.