The photograph on the left is of my maternal Grandmother, Louise Spillard, taken around the turn of the 20th century. My mother Mary and her mother were very close, and Grandmother spent a lot of time with us when I was growing up in the Brainerd neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. She loved to shop, and I remember driving with my mother and her to the Evergreen Park Shopping Center almost every weekend to check out the sales. Grandmother had two sisters she was also very close to and therefore we had a large extended family during my formative years, which sadly is no longer the case. These days people tend to be much more mobile, and we are all the poorer for it.
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