Status Updates From Love, Lucy

There's a great deal of difference between temperament and temper. Temperament is something you welcome creatively, for it based on sensitivity, empathy, awareness...but a bad temper takes too much out of you doesnt really accomplish anything.

When she left to enter nurse's training, Aunt Lola as got a divorce from my Uncle George. He moved away and out of our lives, and Cleo stayed with us. She was a cuddly, affectionate child, who often crawled into Dede's lap to be comforted. Our pet name for her was "Cleo-baby"; Freddy was "Fritzie-boy" and I was "Lucille-what-the-hell-are-uou-doing-now?"