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before on our show today you're going to hear a little bit about Edie's own life story.

We love telling you stories of family stories of mothers and Today you're going to hear a little bit about Edie's own life story.

We love telling you stories of family, stories of mothers,

and the importance they play in their children's lives for better and for worse.

Here's Edie with her own story. I recall a simpler time in my life in burnout Alabama.

It was so small that we used to laugh and say, well, you know, burnouts burnt plum out.

I remember going out back of the house and I would be making mud pies.

My brothers would come up and I'll never forget how...

They said, so what are you cooking today, Edie?

Or they called me Edith.

And I said, I'm making a new mud pie. You want to try it? I remember that they sat down on the little pieces of wood on the rocks,

and they put that mud in their mouth. They got sick from eating that dirt

and running to the house to tell mother that I'd fed them mud pies.

It wasn't funny to my mother, but it was funny to me.

It was those little things.

I remember going to the barn with the boys,

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