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needs to be near better medical care and have someone to constantly watch over her, that’s all,” says Bo, withholding the full truth.
     
    As they come around the corner and see Viola’s cottage, Bo gets excited in seeing that it is still in such great shape, it’s not what he was expecting at all. “Wow, even the gardening is taken care of!” he says.
     
    “We all make sure she is taken care of, Bo. She may be your biological grandmother, but she is like a grandmother to half of this town too.”
     
    As they make their way up the driveway they glance at each other as if saying “here goes”. Bo knocks on the door and Viola quickly opens it.
     
    “I have been expecting you,” she says in an excited but not too excited tone. ”Hello, Katy bug,” she says, giving Katy a kiss on the cheek. She gives Bo a hug and leads the two inside.
     
    “I brought you some peach tea and some apple turnovers, I mean, bear claws. Katy says you prefer bear claws now.”
     
    “Indeed, I do,” replies Viola. “Get down to it, Bo, why are you here?”
     
    “I have come to spend some time with you, Mammy, to make sure that you are ok.”
     
    “Bologna!” snaps Viola. “You sent that viper of a woman, Monica, here to make me all kinds of offers to move to Dallas. It didn’t work and now you are here to try and do the same.” “I might be old but I’m not ignorant,” she says with a finger pointed toward him.
     
    “It’s not like that, Mammy, it’s just that I don’t like the fact that you don’t have the adequate care that you need available to you here in Little Hill. Dallas has much more appropriate medical facilities, for someone in your condition.”
     
    “What condition? I am as good as gold. Sure, I had a little old heart attack, it was minor and I have recovered well. It is nothing for you to get all riled up about and have me move across the state. Good grief, boy.”
     
    “Mammy,” Bo tries to argue.
     
    “Bo,” says Katy, “I am over here just about every day as to where you haven’t been here in years. I know just how well Miss Viola gets around and takes care of herself, and you don’t. You’re wrong about what you think you know, sir.”
     
    “Sir?” says Bo.
     
    “Yes, sir,” replies Katy. “You are all high and mighty, aren’t you? Bo Brogan, attorney-at-law, most prominent lawyer in Dallas, owner of ‘The Squire’, whoopdi doo! That doesn’t mean anything to us down here. So you can take your condescending tone and go back to where you came from.”
     
     “Oh gosh, I’m sorry, Miss Viola, I apologize for my hostility. I just couldn’t stand the thought of you leaving the other day when that lady showed up and started talking about you moving. I thought you had made plans to leave without telling me and I was... heartbroken.”
     
     “Katy, I can see that you have grown close to Mammy, but she is MY grandmother.”
     
    “Halloo, I’m still in the room over here, young whippersnappers. Let’s not talk about me as if I’m not. If the both of you want to take care of something for me, why don’t you both go to the grocery store for me? I have a long list on the fridge and I have a stew going on the stove, I need a few more things for, oh Lordy, I must be senile, if I forgot the things I needed for my stew! Ha!” She slaps her knee, “Here’s the list and off you go!”
     
    “I’m sure Katy can manage this by herself, Mammy. Why don’t I stay here and we can catch up?”
     
    “Oh, I’m caught up,” says Viola. “Now get on to the store and get me the things on that list so we can have a proper meal for your first night in town.”
     
     Katy and Bo both let out a little sigh and grumble and give Viola a fake grin before heading out the door. 
     
    “Well, her sense of humor is certainly still intact,” says Bo.
     
    “Everything is still intact,” replies Katy. “She’s the strongest woman I know.”
     
    They get to Jim’s Grocery and start