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My Brush with Fame

Many years ago when I first married I lived in an apartment in Taylor, Texas. My husband was in the military and was stationed at an army camp near Taylor. The apartment was in a house that was owned and lived in by the grandmother of Rip Torn, the movie actor. I never actually saw Rip Torn but I heard so much about him from his grandmother. He was a child then. She was such a nice lady and she invited us to go to church with her and her husband. They were members of a Lutheran church there in Taylor.

I did my washing out in her backyard with water heated in a big wash pot over an open fire. I am sure they had enough money to have running hot water to a washing machine in their house but for some reason they did not. She did her washing in big tubs using a washboard(some of you may have never seen nor heard of a washboard). A washboard is what they used to scrub their clothes on to get them clean. I am sure it was very hard on the cloth but that is what they did. Whenever I see Rip Torn in a movie it brings back all of the memories of his grandmother and grandfather so long ago in Taylor, Texas. That was my brush with fame, however light it was.

posted by kyra lafain @ 3/11/2008 05:27:00 PM