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Evelyn Bryant Durham's 'The Purple Elephant In The Room'

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The Purple Elephant in the Room

“I’m not as crazy as everyone thinks I am,” were the last words that my hero ever said to my father. My hero is my grandmother Evelyn Bryant Durham, I knew her for fifteen years but she only knew me for eleven. When I was around four years old my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She was scared but her and my grandpa knew that everything was going to be fine because God had it. Her family and friends always knew that if there was something that they needed they could always go to her and she would help them the best she could. On January 27, 1939, Evelyn Bryant Durham was born to T.B. and Mald Bryant in Pickens County. As she grew up she became an amazing Godly woman that everyone loved to see and
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