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Like Annie, her mother had an imaginative spirit too. Annie recalls how she would latch onto phrases she thought sounded funny or interesting and repeat them for days. One particular phrase her mother repeated endlessly was “Terwilliger bunts one,” after she heard a radio announcer say it during a baseball game her husband was listening to. Another phrase Annie’s mother often said was, “that...is a royal poinciana.” Annie explains that her mother loved humor and plays on words and adored, “anyone who met her verbal challenges.” She even loved when people would point out and undermine her jokes; she believed that people who would tamely fall for them were dull. This is clear when Annie’s mother was on the operating table before surgery and tried …show more content…

Annie explains in instances like those, “you had to think on your feet.” Sometimes her mother’s jokes could even get a bit cruel. One time, for example, “during a family trip to the Highland Park Zoo,” she approached a couple at the zoo and acted like the man was her former lover and that Annie was their love-child. She left before he could respond, leaving him desperately trying to explain to his wife or girlfriend that he had never seen her before as he wailed, “I swear, I never saw her before in my life.” Annie's mother had an intelligence which Annie believed, was largely wasted in her domestic life. Her mother had all kinds of ideas for inventions and, “followed American politics closely.” Annie explains that, “Mother’s energy and intelligence suited her for a greater role in a larger arena”; because of this she believed that her mother could easily fill in the position of the Mayor of New York City or the CEO of a major corporation. However, her mother’s many ideas could never be largely known because, at the end of the day, she was a

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