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Along her quiet street in Steger, Illinois, Grandma Yushkevich had her own mini farm to feed her eight children. The strawberry patch had its own picket fence to protect her tiny sweet gems.
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Childhood
October 23, 2018
Along her quiet street in Steger, Illinois, Grandma Yushkevich had her own mini farm to feed her eight children. The strawberry patch had its own picket fence to protect her tiny sweet gems.
We moved into our house in May of 1998. Our son was seven and our triplets eight months old. When school started, we posed our oldest in front of the catalpa and took his picture.
I live in a small older subdivision near the border of Chicago. One of our neighbors has a huge beautiful tree in their yard.
When I was five years old
Dad told me, “It’s a catalpa.
See its seed-pod cigars.”
There used to be
a great big tree
a great majesty.
All of the homes were the same Queen Anne style on the short 6400 block of North Newland Avenue in Chicago in the 1950s.
