“For dessert she’d have chocolate cake, because she was by golly old enough to eat whatever she pleased without worrying about calories or fat count or sugar. According to Lurlene they were almost out of chocolate-covered cherries, and that would not do. That wouldn’t do at all. Eunice had three chocolate-covered cherries every night before bed, served to her on one of her good china plates, with a linen napkin in case any of the juice dribbled. Since she was an expert at eating chocolate-covere...d cherries, it had been a long time since she’d had need of that napkin. Susan complained that it wasn’t easy to find her mother-in-law’s favorite treat after the Christmas season had passed, but she managed.Eunice was not going to sacrifice her chocolate-covered cherries.The truth of the matter was, at better than eighty she was healthy as a horse. Her legs weren’t as strong as they had once been, and her hips and knees gave her trouble every day—and would until the day she died—which is why she relied on the wheelchair.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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