When I was 4, Mama’s uncle, a kind and successful man, died. The call came late one night that his life was ebbing away. Mama pulled me out of bed, smoothed my tousled red-tinted hair and hauled me, still clad in pajamas, to sit vigil until her beloved uncle had crossed the river Jordan.
Ronda Rich: Selecting a treasure trunk to call my own
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