Also they used the Sears catalogs as toilet paper in the outhouses. She taught me how to make paper dolls and we would play with them sometimes. She would plat my hair and tie it with brown paper bags once in a while and I would sleep like that then wake up the next day with curls after taking out the bag pieces and plats. | Possum Thee Appalachian

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