"If you live long enough, you realize all of the memories you have will die with you." What began as a story about my mother's late sister's love for a young soldier morphed into the tale of a family, a portrait of a poor family that reveals a snapshot of life in the rural South in the mid-1900's. It is a memorial to the dead, a testament to the living, and a gift for the future, written and complied by J. Delores Bird, Ph.D., "a flower that blossomed...