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My grandmother gave me the piggy bank when I was four, for Christmas, wrapped in a box with bows. She said, “A penny saved is a penny earned.” She said, “Find a penny pick it up, all day long you’ll have good luck.” She wore a beehive of blue hair, had piercing green eyes, dressed in expensive-seeming clothes. “A lady of quality,” she said. She sold Avon door to door and from the living room of her two-bedroom ranch on Lover’s Lane in Heather, Illinois. Her house smelled like honeysuckle. More on ebay
MARTHA McPHEE 