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Mary E. hollered out ’’Bruce damit, run damit," I ran. I had actually
forgotten about this incident until Doris Carter reminded me of it
while we were reminiscing in Sept. 96. On the north side of the Mills
house was yard space also, here we played football. U. Carroll would
come home from UF for the holidays and we would play touch football.
Jimmy and I would choose up sides and we played with simple rules.
No, we didn't make them up as we went along, but we did keep them
easy to remember.

Gussie was a very unique lady, she had a knack of making someone
laugh at practically anything. It was not what she would say but
mostly how she could say it. The first time she saw Uncle Curtis'
first baby, (who has very blue eyes), she told him "Curtis if you had
dipped him just one more time he might have had blue eyes." While she
was growing up she called Mama "Toots" and later changed it to Sis,
she called Aunt Nita "Pete." Her favorite story of Mama's growing up
was the fact Mama was such a "dare-devil" like riding a horse
bareback and standing up while the horse was running. She could come
up with a nick name for just about anyone, and most of the time it
would be something funny.

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