[Pukin Dog]

We can move along, but I would like to think that the mental picture of one 80 year old woman beating up another in defense of liberty made you smile just a little?

[Torie]

It does. My grandmother, who lived to be 99, and who was seemingly ancient, even when I was knee high to a grasshopper, was the toughest sister I have ever come across on this planet. Sentimentality was simply not her bag, as her very intelligent, but unforgiving, piercing and judgmental eyes, caste rapprochement at the errancy of not only the young, but at that of her peers as well. When I drove my college friends to visit her in Iowa from Chicago (when she was in her 80's), they NEVER forgot her. In fact, in an odd way, they were jealous. They simply didn't have a grandmother like I did. Few did.