She loved teaching, feeding ideas, challenging authority, cooking,  stirring the pot, dressing casual and playing fancy, she loved gardening, planting trees, gathering firewood, staring at the moon, playing her washtub bass, she loved her children, her husband, her sister and brother, she loved driving on the highway and dirt roads, she loved to smoke, she loved reading, she loved her bathtub, she loved the patio and wine, she loved watching birds, she loved art, she loved politics, she loved being right, she loved arguing, she loved every vegetable and meat and fish, she loved hiking in mountains, she loved her jobs, she loved scrabble, she loved her fellow teachers mostly, she loved sharing her wealth, she loved her granddaughters and her parents, she loved badminton, she loved making play doh Xmas ornaments, she loved mysticism and heretical truth, she loved her home state, she loved her nation and Paris and Germany, she loved swimming in the pond, picnics, watching movies at the drive in, she loved to make clothes from patterns, she loved all seasons, she loved no church, she loved semi independence, she loved her women friends and their children, she loved being easter and valentine hero, she loved making paper sack lunches for her boys, she loved philosophy, she loved greater minds, she loved the train, she loved bouquets uncut and also displayed in vases, she loved diversity, she loved rock and roll, she loved her home and property, she loved her study, she loved museums, she loved ice skating, she loved quoting Shakespeare and Chaucer, she loved fresh milk from jars, she loved coffee and making bread, she loved to doodle, she loved her sunglasses, she loved to opine, she loved her heirlooms, she loved her cats one by one, she loved her university, she loved to travel, she loved to smile, she loved her intellect, she loved her great grandmother and her farm, she loved hosting parties and going to other's parties, she loved being honestly generous, she loved sunbathing and frozen margaritas, she loved birthday letters, happy birthday mom, we love you too. 

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