I asked her the secret of her long life. She
thought a few seconds and then said:
I tended a cow,
and I’d be out in the open a lot.
Was name’ Mollie.
She also said:
That doctor I saw
didn’t know anything about polio.
Said it just weren’t her generation
to know anything about it.
I can’t remember that doctor’s name,
as many bills as I got from her.
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