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Selected Writings & Artwork by Harriett Copeland Lillard
Selected Writings & Artwork by Harriett Copeland Lillard
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Diary 1978-1981<br />
Woe is me! A failed mother again! Everybody else’s mother had had the decency and foresight to buy their track shoes weeks ago.<br />
Suddenly I thought of Chester – the one boy in Jason’s class whose parents were not upwardly mobile, whose mother’s car was in worse<br />
shape than mine, but Chester could run like hell, “Jace, where did Chester get his shoes?”<br />
A pause…. then, “But I want the kind with two sets of spikes and the little screwdriver to change’m and they have to be Nikes or they’re<br />
rippy…just plain RIPPY!”<br />
Knowing that I had won, that Chester had indeed bought them in Jacksboro, I closed in for the kill, “Where did Chester buy his?”, I said in<br />
my not-to-be-trifled-with voice.<br />
“At B&H. But I don’t want those kind. I want Nikes!”<br />
“Jason, I am sick in bed. Even if I were well, we couldn’t make it to Wichita Falls today. Here is a signed blank check. Go to B&H, buy the<br />
shoes, and SHUT UP!”<br />
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