The Little Way Of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, A Small Town, And The Secret Of A Good Life - Plot & Excerpts
And there, knocking on Mam’s back door that morning, was Jane Daniel.Jane and her husband, Bobby, raised their family a mile up the road, just around the bend from the Starhill cemetery. Mam and Paw used to see their little boy Robert Edward—”Red” was his nickname—riding his bike on the blacktop road past our house. He was a sweet kid who became a good man. And then, in his twenties, five months after his wedding, Red died of leukemia.Jane, who had been mourning her son for five years, knew what Mam was going through. That’s why she came that morning.“Everyone’s heart was broken, but Jane knew exactly how my heart was broken,” Mam recalls. “I don’t remember what she said, but her presence was what really mattered. I knew what it took for her to come. I hope that if anybody else around here loses a child, that I will have the strength to do what Jane did for me that day.”Across the field at the Leming house, things weren’t so somber. I dreaded walking back into the house where Ruthie had died not twenty-four hours before, to be around her shell-shocked widower and motherless children.
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