Fannie Flagg by Welcome to the World Baby Girl!

Author:Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! [Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-79095-8
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-16T05:00:00+00:00

After dinner Norma got out her father’s high school yearbooks and all his pictures in an album, but again there was not one picture of her mother.

The next morning at breakfast Dena said, “Norma, what did you know about my mother?”

Norma was caught off guard for a moment. Dena had never brought up the subject before. “Well, Baby Girl, not much. What would you like to know?”

“Oh, what she was like when she was here and things like that.”

Norma put a plate in the dishwasher and closed it and sat down across from Dena. “Well, I can only tell you what I know. I was in high school, I guess … or maybe I had graduated by then. But I certainly remember her. But you know, she wasn’t here all that long, and she stayed mostly to herself. I do remember we would go up to Aunt Gerta’s house to see you and she was always so proud of you, bought you all kinds of toys.”

“Did you like her?”

“Oh, yes, very much. But don’t forget I was still young and didn’t get to know her all that well.”

“What about Aunt Elner?”

“Well, Aunt Elner could probably tell you more than I could. We could talk to her if you’d like.”

“Yes, I think I would.”

Right after breakfast they were on Aunt Elner’s porch again.

“Aunt Elner, I wonder if you remember anything about my mother.”

Norma said, “I’ve told Baby Girl everything I remember.”

“Well, honey, let me sit here and tax my memory.… Lord, that was a piece ago, wasn’t it. But of course I do. I remember the first day she came here. You were just a tiny baby; we went down to the train station to meet Gene’s wife. He had written of how pretty she was, but we had no idea she was going to be that pretty. We were all standing there and here this glamorous creature steps down from the train. We almost couldn’t believe our eyes. She looked like she had stepped out of a magazine. She had on this aqua wool dress and her hair was swept up on her head and she had this little smart pancake of a hat tilted over one eye. Oh, she was a fashion plate if I ever saw one. Let’s put it this way: we had never seen anything like her in Elmwood Springs. Beautiful red hair, and that creamy white skin, and those green eyes—you got Gene’s eyes but you got your mother’s figure. She was tall and I remember her posture, she held herself just like a queen.” She chuckled. “To tell you the truth, I was embarrassed; here we were, her new family, and me so big and fat, wearing a homemade housedress and my old black tie-up shoes, I just wanted to hide. But she recognized us and we were all anxious to get a look at you; you were Gene’s baby, you sort of broke the ice. And when we saw you we were all tickled to death.

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