We're sitting in the lobby waiting to be grouped, the usual routine. Grandma is surprisingly social, she's perked up within the last three minutes, no warning. She is introducing me to anything moving, and tonight she's calling me her niece which I don't see any dire need to correct.
We sat with Christine Spindel, a lady in her 90s who had recently published a book about her early years working at WDIA, a radio station that in her time there became the first all-black radio station in Memphis. She gave me a copy of her book, an extra from the storage pouch on her walker.
https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/166-let-s-put-him-on-the-air