It's all about me

Auntie, as she prefers to be called, may be the black sheep of the Gore-May family but she knows what she likes. As she wipes tables and pours coffee at the Diner she occasionally reflects on her youth: golden summers at her grandparents' home on Long Island, yachting and playing tennis, where an entree was an entrée... snowy winters at her other grandparents' home in rural Canada, collecting pinecones in the snowy woods and spooning up home-nurtured soup beside the fire... Here she shares her thoughts...