In memories that are by turns hilarious and deeply moving, she shares some of her more fantastic deliveries - sleeping pills to Marilyn Monroe (in town filming Niagara), sedatives to Mad Bear, a violent Tuscarora chief, and fungus cream to Warty, the gentle, and painfully lonely operator of the town dump. Already able to read road maps, she accompanies Roy the deliveryman on his routes. Mothers wear high heels to the beauty salon and children pop Pez candy and swing from vines over a local gorge.īut at the tender age of four, it becomes clear to her Cathy's parents that their rambunctious daughter is no ordinary child and they soon put her "to work" at her father's pharmacy. It is the middle of the 1950s in Lewiston, New York, a small and sleepy American town very near Niagara Falls. Welcome to the childhood of Catherine McClure Gildiner. A poignant memoir about one intrepid, unforgettable girl and her extraordinary childhood in 1950s small-town America
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