Episode 102: My grandmother made my tea from a separate pot on the highest shelf every summer and I have been making it for my son
Submitted by Rae — Springfield, Missouri. 39. My grandmother lived outside Ava, Missouri, on forty acres that were mostly cedar and rock, and my mother sent me down there every summer from the time I was four until I was twelve. She worked doubles at a nursing home in Springfield and she couldn't have me underfoot. That's how she put it. Underfoot. There were always cousins at Grandma's in summer. Five or six of us, sleeping crossways on a mattress on the screen porch. In the afternoons Grandma made sweet tea in a gallon jar and set it on the porch rail, and everybody drank it out of jelly…
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