Ah, my lovely Aunt Mary! She, like my mother, was born in the 1920's but unlike mother, she married my mother's brother who, during WWII was in the Army Air Corp. When they married, they traveled over the world and had three children, one of them my favorite cousin Linda. When my sons and Linda's children were small and we were going to Texas to see them, (we lived in Georgia) I talked to Aunt Mary about what she might want from my area of the country and she had two requests. One, because they couldn't get them in Texas,...
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Ah, my lovely Aunt Mary!
She, like my mother, was born in the 1920's but unlike mother, she married my mother's brother who, during WWII was in the Army Air Corp. When they married, they traveled over the world and had three children, one of them my favorite cousin Linda.
When my sons and Linda's children were small and we were going to Texas to see them, (we lived in Georgia) I talked to Aunt Mary about what she might want from my area of the country and she had two requests.
One, because they couldn't get them in Texas, was Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Now, this was in early 1980,81. But more than that, she wanted the Stuckeys cinnamon pecans in the tin can.
She and I both loved them, so I made sure we stopped at Stuckey's and got oh, a half a dozen cans of the pecans, a few log rolls and other delishishnish!! (that's what we called it).
We arrived around 2300 hrs, hungry, tired, with two tired little boys. Once everyone was settled and bedded down, , Aunt Mary and I sat back, put our feet up and popped open the pecans - a can for me, a can for her, and the other cans well hidden.
It's something she asked for on each trip we took to Texas, and when she and her two sisters in law came to see my mother and all of us in Georgia some 15 years later, she made absolutely sure that she secretly gave me at least two cans of the pecans. Oh, to this day, to me - and to my Aunt Mary who is now in heaven with my uncle, Aunt Mary and I agreed that those pecans were exactly a lovely taste of Heaven.
Thank you, Stuckey's, for making such "delishishnish!!" I'll never forget the love they brought as I learned to love Aunt Mary as my friend while we nibbled (or gobbled) on those fantastic pecans!...
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