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| AUNT OTELIA (click her snake bracelet for backstory |
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| Paulina Jordan, Otelia's sister, Washington, D.C. C 1860 |
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| Why Aunt Otelia? Why not Aunt Paulina, or Pauline, the mother of them both, whose grave I've visited in Beaumont Texas, and whose crazy quilt is rolled up in a sheet under the bed? Why not Movay, my own grandmother who doted on me and embodied moral virtue itself tho I heard her myself say things that would make us both pariahs today?
Why not my own mother, Paulina Otelia, whom I knew well and who had young friends, who are still alive and might click this pic of her? See Polly.
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| Pauline Voinard, Otelia's mother, Washington D.C. daguerreotype about 1864 |
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| Movay, Otelia's niece-in-law |
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