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Picking Grapes

My grandpa grew his own grape vines with lots of muscadine grapes. We cousins always loved picking them. We ate a lot of homemade grape jelly and homemade biscuits.

Our days would also include playing horsehoes, playing baseball and checkers. We enjoyed a special closeness from living such a simple life in a small community.

The Lord took my cousin home as a young man but I still have a lot of good memories.

Dorothy Steele, Lilesville, Pee Dee Electric

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