Christmas Forgiveness

My mema just told me that her WHOLE life, she was the only Hallie she knew...until that black woman, Halle Berry came along with her name. And she knows how that happened. she does. She can remember a family living down the street from hers when they were growing up–a black family. And they must have kindly remembered her name and told other black people. informed the whole community, you see.  And, you know, somehow or another her name got around to Halle Berry's parents. That's how that happened.

But I think all things considered, she's in very good spirits about it. It is Christmas after all.

ADDENDUM TO THE AFOREMENTIONED: Mema just reneged her story, saying that black family down the street did indeed have the last name of Berry. Of course that would make them–according to my dad–blackberries.