Fond memories of our Fourth of July gatherings

I miss watching the spectacular fireworks display at Eddie G’s house every Fourth of July.

Eddie G. was my grandmother’s longtime companion. For the last 20 years of her life, Eddie treated her like gold.

She’d had a hard life, after all. Widowed in her late 40s way back in 1955, she struggled for years to pay the bills — she struggled to tend to six children.