Chapter 27 Forgive me Elsa

• “Your grandmother, when she was alive, she was so strict.” Lorna got to her feet, and Elsa helped clear the table.
• Her mother wasn’t talking about her father’s mother, her paternal grandmother, who had said she was fine the way she was.
• “I was on a diet most of my life. I don’t even remember not being on a diet. I was a bigger girl growing up, my grandmother being an exceptional cook. I loved going there, and eating her gravy and biscuits, fried chicken. Mom, she wasn’t so happy about that, and she hated anyone saying stuff about her daughter.”