she had no other grandchildren so just the four of us owned it all
in memory it was because Tom could not say grandma as is the case for most affectations of name
but maybe she assigned it to herself I could see this she was that sort
sitting on the staircase the type that had a midway point landing big enough to dream upon I
don’t think I was doing much untoward but there she was telling me to never trim my cuticles
and certainly to never chew them like a mad dog earnest in her delivery of this bit of invaluable decorum
startled I must’ve been or I assign this sense to myself now
50 years on 30 since she’s been gone this lesson for life