Penelope Simmons (PS): My mother was Sug to everybody. Oh, I called her mama, too, but I called her Sug.

Suzanne Wayne (SW): Where did she get her name?

PS: When she was a little kid, she would climb up on the kitchen table and eat sugar out of the sugar bowl, and so they started calling her Sugar. And she loved us, but she was nowhere near a hovering mother; I mean we did run wild.

SW: Now what's the story about taking target practice?

PS: So, my one brother, he would make my other brother put on layers of clothes. And then he'd take a BB gun and shoot him.

SW: But he'd have to run around the yard.

PS: He'd have to run around the yard. I mean you know, Sug wasn't around all the time.

You'd go tell Sug that you'd cut your foot. It could be hanging by a piece of skin, and Sug would go, "Oh baby go get a Band- Aid, you'll be all right."

Everybody loved Sug. And everybody would come...
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