My grandmother, always tan from gardening and playing tennis had the smoothest, wrinkled skin you ever felt. She always lathered on her lotion. I think that's why her skin was so soft. The smell was never anything I preferred as a kid, I just remember she always had a bottle on her counter and a few under the sink.
After she died, the first year I went to college, I found myself picking up Jergens Cherry Almond. The smell could get me lost in a daze of childhood summertime memories. I could find myself feeling tearful for no reason.
I put some on my cleanly shaven legs tonight and couldn't help but think of her. It's summer time and oh how life has changed. It has changed so much I could have never predicted it. But some things stay the same and carry on.
Like Jergens Cherry Almond Lotion.
Mom, me, and Grandma Ginnie
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