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...weeks ago, Mama Ann flew in from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to stay at my dad's new apartment in Manhattan for a few days. Because little goes on at TIME on Mondays other than searching for typos in one another's articles, I told Mama Ann I'd take the day off and do grandmother things with her, like having tea. But when I called the week before, she told me she wasn't getting in until Monday night. So I made dinner reservations. But my father called from the airport to tell me that Mama Ann had eaten...
...back from the airport, my dad parked the car in front of my apartment while I leaned over the passenger's seat and talked to Mama Ann. The conversation mostly focused on her fear that they would get a ticket...
...common can still be love. And I couldn't help wondering if my dad's constant suggestion to call my grandmother because "it's all she talks about to her friends all week" is slightly dishonest. But even though she didn't want to do anything with me, Mama Ann did seem awfully happy to just sit and talk and see her family together. Tea, seeing a musical, antiques shopping--those were my images of what old people want. Actually, they're just things I want to do and need a grandmother as an excuse, the way Bill Clinton likes...
...Caroline is released that night. Next day, the clan floods the fourth floor of HealthSouth to finally pay the visit we had come for. Mama, in a wheelchair, is surrounded by her 85-year-old husband, her three kids, her son-in-law and daughter-in-law and her five grandkids-our three and Gail and Scott's two. There's a lot of talk about all the recent trips to the hospital by everyone here, and about Mom's hip, but the acute focus is on Caroline. She's tired but happy, still with no appetite and still with...
...says she'll never concede to having a favorite among all her work, finding the question "a bit like asking a mama who her favorite kid is." However, she says the recent republication of Always Coming Home--a mélange of fables, poems, anthropology and myth--made her proud. She calls the work "a strange, personal book...