Every family has stories. Some are too good to be true.
, was a dyed-in-the-wool Southern girl who never wholly reconciled to the fact that the South had lost the Civil War — which, Johnny said, she often pronounced, was from Georgia. The youngest in the family, Sam had been too young to fight in the war. His next oldest brother was too young, too. But the five oldest Garrison boysold enough. In a memoir that Johnny’s grandmother dictated into a tape recorder in 1979, she said the five of them went off to fight for the South, “never to return.
It’s true that Myrtle had a complicated childhood. Her mother had taken off for the bright lights of Los Angeles, leaving behind three daughters. And there, a crusading lawyer who styled himself as a humorist and a writer in the vein of his doppelgänger,” Diane wrote. “If anyone had attempted to do the good deed of adopting a young girl in Topeka in the 1890s, it is a safe bet that it was G.C. rather than Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
“Even my grandmother’s best friend told me that story in 2007 after my grandmother’s death,” wrote Matt, of Oakland, Calif.
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