When I was very little, from about the age of 0-5,  my family lived next door to Terry.  To preface this memoir of Terry’s role in my life, all of my grand parents had passed away before I was born. That being said, Terry was a sweet woman that lived next door to me. I remember running out the back door of my house and up the steps of her porch to her back door. I would knock on the door till she came and ask her if I could help her in her garden. Her back yard had these amazing gardens that as a child I would crawl and get lost in for what seemed to be hours. I would help her smash the leaves down in the trash can and collect pecans that fell from the tree in her back yard. It was always worth it because, after a hard days work she always had a candy for me. Soon she became what we called my “adopted grandmother”. From that moment on she came to every birthday for me and my sister. She came to my school on grandparents day. She took My sister and I sister to the movies all the time. She owned and ran a woman’s clothing boutique. I remember being in her shop and getting lost in the racks of clothes. She liked nice things. She had a lot of turquoise and amber jewelry. She liked to travel and she had friends everywhere she went.  As I got older I would still help her in her gardens. When I became interested in music she taught me how to play the piano. I’m not great but what I can play I will always know came from her.  My biggest regret is that I didn’t take the time to get to know her better. She married once to a man named Billy Clegg. They divorced but stayed lifelong friends. She never had any children, but when she came into my family’s life, she claimed stake as my father’s mom. 
Without my actual grandparents around, Terry was the best and only person to fill the position. The last time I saw her, she didn’t recognize me at first. But when I said who I was, her face lit up like it did when I was a kid at her back door. I love you Terry. 

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