Mother. Beautiful without makeup. Lived in bad part of town. Associated with low life people but she was the queen of the neighborhood: Clean, beautiful, intelligent, pure, nice to all people.
She loved art, drawing, writing, crosswords, puzzles, reading, sewing, babysitting, working hard, painting, cooking simple things and eating cakes, pies, drinking iced tea ..instant lipton with sugar and drinking sodas especially pepsi. This is what caused her weight gain. I have pictures of her and me when I was about 1-3 years old and she was slim trim dressed very nice and, of course, strikingly beautiful.
She believed in god and Jesus Christ. Religious and faithfully attended church weekly if not more often. She prayed for the evil, the lost and wicked people.
She was gentle. Extremely soft and gently and easy going. She loved animals and babies, children and all people except the ones who were mean, rude, uncouth, drunkards yet she ended up with the mean, brash low lifes. Perhaps she thought she would influence them in good ways so they would become better and nicer people. It did not work. It never works. The crumbs will stay crummy unless they come to the realization that they need to change their ways..
These were her qualities and downfalls as are mine.
I cannot change a toad or a wolf into a beautiful swan or any other gorgeous being.
