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FirstLight

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2. Damn. Sounds like my mamaw
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:24 AM
May 24

Her name was Beulah maybel and she was from backwoods Mississippi.
God that woman was a role model for me...

I got to spend the summer before she passed when I was 12 with her. It was a revelation spending time with her in the kitchen in the garden. I learned a lot. She managed to leave an abusive husband in the 50s when that was unheard of but it was only because her oldest son was able to be the man of the house and get her situated on her own.
I remember asking her that summer why she never remarried after she left Grandpa. And her response was "I ain't watching no man's dirty socks!"

Years later when I was 22 and had been abandoned pregnant by my loser husband and I was packing his shit to throw down the stairs I remember coming across his nasty laundry and I thought about whether I should wash it before I bagged it. I heard clear as day bringing in my head her voice saying I ain't washing no man's dirty socks! So I stuffed his shit stained underwear in a bag and it festered downstairs for 3 weeks until he came to pick up his crap. It was petty revenge but I still thank Grandma Beulah for that beautiful inspiration!

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