Heritage
by Louis Jenkins
Great-Grandmother Murphy was a proud woman.
She came from a well-to-do family that had con-
nections back east. She had presence and bearing.
Great-Grandpa Murphy was an Irishman of dubi-
ous ancestry and background. Nevertheless they
got married, as people do. Grandpa Murphy shuf-
fled along as they walked downtown, looking at the
ground or his feet. He found things that way; an
Indian arrowhead, sometimes a nickel or a dime. A
dime was worth something in those days. And here
is a perfectly good comb, just needs to be boiled a bit
to kill the bugs. Grandmother kept her head high as
she walked along; she was a Smith, after all, one of
the Smiths. But she never found anything.
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