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Show CHRYSALIS pAQE 160 -18- Another picnic, years ago. I am nine years old. My grandmother is still alive. She is here, with her long red hair wrapped around her head in circles of braids. My grandfather has a bottle of Four Roses whisky to keep him company. He celebrates every holiday with a bottle of Four Roses. He sits apart from the rest of us and hums comfortably to himself. In ten years they will both be gone. But today it is all right, today is fine! Tomorrow we will go our several ways, but today we are all together again. Papa cooks hamburgers over an open fire. Blue smoke rises high into the air. Mama helps Grandma with the lemonade and potato salad. My big brother Gary, who is 15 this year, climbs out of the river, says he won't go back in, the water's |