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Here's a little short
one for Charlotte.

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Charlotte broke her hip when
she was 89, she lived to be 92.

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And she, I'm sorry.

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She lived to be 102.

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Hazel lived to be 92.

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And she got over it quickly,
the breaking the hip.

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But in the meantime, I wrote
this little poem for her.

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I went over when I was caring
for my father for three months.

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When he died I went
over to visit her often.

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She was then living with
her oldest son and his wife.

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And the first time
I found her up high,

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high on a ladder on the
apple tree picking apples.

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And I scolded her and she
said, "Oh, Dick, you're

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acting like Hazel."

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So I didn't try to keep
her out of the apple tree.

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One time when she was about 85
I guess, she loved my little--

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I had a little Triumph
convertible, she loved it.

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Because you put the top down,
go fast, and her hair would blow

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and she liked that.

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So we'd been driving around
and we stopped at a drugstore

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to have a milkshake
and she said, "Well, I

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don't want to go in, I only
have on my house slippers."

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And I said, "Grandma,
you're acting like Hazel."

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[LAUGHTER]

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And so she said, "OK."

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So we went to the drugstore
and had a milkshake

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and we came out.

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And a fire truck went
by, zoom, and then

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another one right after it, and
then we looked down the street

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and saw just about in the
next block smoke coming out

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of a building.

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And so we couldn't resist.

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I grabbed her hand
and we started

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running down the street.

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And suddenly, it
dawned on me, I'm

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running down the street with
my 85-year-old grandmother

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in her house slippers
chasing a fire engine.

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I wonder how many
people have done that.