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Secondhand Stories

Secondhand Stories SECONDHAND STORIES REBECCA HAZELWOOD ost summer Saturday nights of my childhood, I Msnuggled in the crook of Granny Gracie’s bare legs, just the two of us watching The Golden Girls on the big box TV in her living room, taking lessons from Blanche Devereaux. When Blanche mentioned being as jumpy as a virgin at a prison rodeo, I said, “Granny, what’s a virgin?” She said, “Well, you know honey, that’s when a woman hasn’t slept with a man.” 38 Granny was an expert in courting, only forty-six when I was born and still hot to trot. She wore satin nightgowns on humid summer nights and red, fuzzy onesie pajamas on nights after the frost arrived in Kentucky. eTh rest of her was always the same, no matter the season: red toenails and pink fingernails, with a hunk of Super Glue under at least one nail that she’d broken while doing the housework. My northerner mother was first shocked and then amused when she learned Granny’s secret for keeping her long nails; she used to hold up Granny’s hands and peer underneath her nails every time we visited, just to check for the Super Glue. Granny never disappointed. Every Friday http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Secondhand Stories

Appalachian Review , Volume 48 (2) – Sep 11, 2020

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Abstract

SECONDHAND STORIES REBECCA HAZELWOOD ost summer Saturday nights of my childhood, I Msnuggled in the crook of Granny Gracie’s bare legs, just the two of us watching The Golden Girls on the big box TV in her living room, taking lessons from Blanche Devereaux. When Blanche mentioned being as jumpy as a virgin at a prison rodeo, I said, “Granny, what’s a virgin?” She said, “Well, you know honey, that’s when a woman hasn’t slept with a man.” 38 Granny was an expert in courting, only forty-six when I was born and still hot to trot. She wore satin nightgowns on humid summer nights and red, fuzzy onesie pajamas on nights after the frost arrived in Kentucky. eTh rest of her was always the same, no matter the season: red toenails and pink fingernails, with a hunk of Super Glue under at least one nail that she’d broken while doing the housework. My northerner mother was first shocked and then amused when she learned Granny’s secret for keeping her long nails; she used to hold up Granny’s hands and peer underneath her nails every time we visited, just to check for the Super Glue. Granny never disappointed. Every Friday

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Sep 11, 2020

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