Try a Madeleine, Marcel says.
It worked for me.
So I do
Opening up the family tree
As far back as my grandma
That little old lady
Who sat me on her lap
told me stories
In the park
& always wore widow-weeds
Midnight dark
who happily each Xmas,
Chopped the chooks’
heads
off
& we’d
watch them
run around the yard
higgledy-piggeldy
in shock.
do you have memories of your grandma?
- photo by Alexandre Godreau from Unsplash
John Malone 
Oh, some memories for you there, John!
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that is for sure, Carolyn: haven’t thought of dear old grandma for decades until that seminal passage from ‘In Remembrance of Things Past’ sparked the recollections
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Ohhh!
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grannies were tough in those days; not sure whether Marcel saw anything as grisly in his childhood
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I’ve never tasted Madeleines, though they look tasty. 🙂 Grandmas can be brutally ruthless when it comes to feeding their hungry family. Poor little chooks. Those scrumptiously delicious birds never stood a chance.
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it’s the sort of thing you don’t forget: those chooks running around the yard spurting blood withn no heads on: brutal and comical at the same time
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