CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
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ELLA HAD BEEN TALKING to her grandmother for a couple of hours already, and the woman baffled her. It was after eleven, and she still had enough stamina to reminiscence.
She told Ella stories about the Christmases they spent together when Ella was little, and she could recall every single prank Ella had ever played on her sister and brother.
That year, only Ella's brother had come with his wife for holidays. His sons had gone abroad with a group of friends, and Ella's sister had gone away with her family.
Ella's father watched a game on TV with her brother, as usual. Her mother brought him another beer and a pitcher of eggnog for the women to share.
She filled granny’s glass first, and then she poured eggnog in Ella’s. Marge, her daughter-in-law, refused, sa
