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Mummy:

Mummy Joan, una bella Italiana, from Milano.

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Munny lived a life of quiet agony and despair, bore me and died, while yet a pitilessly, young geel.

Nana Maternal:

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Nana Anna Maternal: haughty, autocratic, icy, aristocratic, austere, we adored one another.

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Nana taught me all of what there is, of consequence, to know of society and the world.

Step Mummy Catherina:

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Stepmother Catherina Beck, a German geel with a decidedly Germanic personality, from, I think, Bavaria, at any rate from the Catholic region over there, who took on the, indubitably thankless task, of pinch-hitting for Mummy and Nana and did far, far better than most any other could have done at that task.

Hortense Macon Memoriam.

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 While, I am who I am, in the main, because of the three, pictured, ladies one other, very much deserving of mention, was a coloured servant geel called Hortense Macon, Girl of the Garden, from Vicksburg, Mississippi, of whom, crystalline memory, but lamentably, no picture, remains or very likely, was ever taken.

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