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Show 205 It hit the window like a wall of water. We barely had time to escape with our lives and a few personal belongings, and join the other citizens on top of the hill, as fire gutted the flimsy match-box houses on our side of the hill. "Look at that woman, " said someone about me. "People save the darnedest things in a fire. Imagine coming out with a lamp shade. " I had made the lampshade, and it was precious to me. Another house was not immediately available, so I used this flimsy pretext to go "home. " Revo was Seminary Valedictorian that year, although she had been very sick. She did such a good job that the Commencement speaker, George H. Brimhall, complimented her publicly. "Look at that girl! You can see the wheels going around in her head! " Naturally, it was a compliment, and we took it that way, proud of our little sister, but locally wheels in the head meant something else. Eldon had his call to go to the North Central States Mission and the family was all excited. Papa wondered seriously how he could keep Eldon on a mission and Mama thought he showed lack of faith. I soon found that I had two homes and was now doomed to be homesick all the time. Our apartment was the top floor of a building next door to Bakers. By now Ivy was married to her first husband, Harry, and had gone away to visit his folks in South Carolina. This marriage is described in her book, "Green Grows Ivy, " an autographed copy of which is in our library. |