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My very last song with my Great Grandmother Wanda White Mathews. She sang regularly on the Tennessee Barn Dance and the Midday Merrygoround... she taught me to sing harmony when I was 4. I will forever miss you Grandma. I have waited a while to post this. Some will say why. It’s sad. It’s humiliating. But it’s her. Her entire life was a song. She lived for a stage. Any stage. She was the most refined and self respectful woman I ever knew. She was graceful and full of kindness. She was funny and quick. Hard working and even more so loving. This video would be her testimony. She would adore all the fuss and fawning. I put it on Facebook and it flew. But I got lost of questions on why.... why is because she loved to sing. She was my person. Her lil cabin was my home away from home. I’ve not stepped foot there since she left. I guess I never will. One of my most favorite videos is recorded on that red couch of hers. I’ll miss it. And her. I hope you see the beauty in it. I hope you share it. She was excited about my American idol experience. She never got to see how it turned out.... she passed while I was performing. She thought I was a star like her friend June Carter my hero... what she didn’t know was she, my Great grandma was the star... she just shined for us in the end... and more so even now!
