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<\/p>\nThere’s a painting hanging in the cellar hallway in my mom’s house that I didn’t remember ever having seen before. I asked her, “Who painted that picture of the young woman knitting? That could be you, in a wicker chair that could be on the porch in Milford?” She said, “Oh, I think Mimi did that.” So I’m pretty sure it is her.<\/p>\n
My mom, painted by my aunt, probably in the late ’30s:<\/p>\n
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Last year when we visited my mom we read the memoirs my aunt recently wrote about working for the USO in hospitals in Europe around the end of WWII, doing sketches of hundreds of wounded GIs for them to send home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There’s a painting hanging in the cellar hallway in my mom’s house that I didn’t remember ever having seen before. I asked her, “Who painted that picture of the young woman knitting? That could be you, in a wicker chair that could be on the porch in Milford?” She said, “Oh, I think Mimi did … <\/p>\n