I love you but we're strangers when we meet." - Charley Pride.
I grew up with my grandmother playing Charley Pride records. When I was young she would put one on, grab my hands, say "dance with me weetzen" and whirl me around the room. In case you're wondering "weetzen" meant "sweet thing" but somehow in her country kind of slang way. Yeah...it doesn't make sense to me either, but it did to her. Needless to say, whenever I hear a Charlie Pride song I think of her.
She loved to laugh and overall was loud, boistrous and just didn't care what people thought. She was an individual. Her sense of humor was a bit off the wall. We loved watching Married with Children and would laugh so hard at Al Bundy's misfortunes. We also watched shows like Amen (she adored Sherman Hemsley) and The Andy Griffith Show. When Andy Griffith passed I thought of my grandmother. She enjoyed life and she never met a stranger. She was a loyal friend to those she cared deeply for. My grandmother lived life with a smile, a laugh and enjoyed the little things. To her, life was an adventure.
She passed away over 15 years ago. Over the years I keep finding her though. She's with me in every Charley Pride song...every show we watched together...I can still hear her laugh.
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