Family Recipe Christin Grow Seton Hall University
Seton Hall University eRepository @ Seton Hall Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs) 2010 Family Recipe Christin Grow Seton Hall University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.shu.edu/dissertations Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Grow, Christin, "Family Recipe" (2010). Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs). 633. https://scholarship.shu.edu/dissertations/633 '<FamilyRecipe" %tin Grow Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Am Department of English, Seton Hall University May 14,2010 %Thesis Mentor Family Recipe Fiona grew up in Allentown-in Gram's and Pop's one-story, red brick home on Bradford Street across from AL To Fiona he was uncle though, and still to me, a genemion younger. When I required Gram as a babysiner, Mondays and Fridays, and sometimes days in between, A1 would stop by for tea in the mid-summer afternoons-his worn, lime green and pastel blue plaid shorts that alternated with only a single pair of khakis, creases ever visible down the center of each leg, front and back His bead, always neatly combed, never surpassing the quarter of an inch below his chin. And his hat, forest green and netted in the back, plush in the front-almost foamlike, embroidered with the Knights of Columbus logo. Al never hocked for tea. He quietly let himself in, passing through the rear porch, even then leaning heavily on a cane, up the concrete steps to the unlocked back door. The porch k enclosed in glass, a small wooden plaque with three hooks beneath hanging from the wall to the left of the door.
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