Yes I do remember the stuff in Grandma's fireplace, also the exploding milk cartons. I also remember LaLa burning kotex boxes there so the trashman wouldn't see them. Do you remember LaLa's 40th birthday where each time the clock chimed she announced how many hours she'd been 40. A lot of my memories of Grandma's house are tied up with LaLa. LaLa and Fran fighting, when she would laugh and laugh as he yelled and yelled. She and Grandma fought, too, and sometimes she would make Grandma cry. God, she was a tough one, that Nelda. Imagine, she was 40 and still living at home in that tiny house, with her husband. I'm sure they had money.

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