How many people can actually experienced the early lives of their mothers? How many people can understand the hopes, ambitions and fears of their mothers who were born a quarter of a century before they were born? How many people actually appreciate their mothers' relationships with their parents and siblings? How many people really know how their parents met and decided to marry? Of course, I was not present during my mother's childhood and young adulthood in East Texas between 1915 and 1935. However, I was privileged to vicariously live through those days of her life and be a part of her...