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Then she'd hide the eggs inside Gramma's house and in her backyard. After Easter brunch, all of us kids would go to Gramma's back yard and get ready to fill up our baskets with as many eggs as we could find. Meemaw used to overdo it with the eggs, though, and hide WAY more than she needed to. In fact, I'll bet you could go out in Gramma's backyard right now and STILL find enough to fill up a basket. Sometimes I'll find an egg at Gramma's in a cabinet

然后她把鸡蛋藏在奶奶的房子里和后院。 复活节早午餐后，我们所有的孩子都会去奶奶家的后院，准备在篮子里装满尽可能多的鸡蛋。 不过，姥姥过去常常把鸡蛋藏得太过了，而且藏得太多了。 事实上，我敢打赌，你现在走到奶奶的后院，仍然可以找到足够装满一个篮子的东西。 有时候我会在奶奶家的橱柜里找到一个鸡蛋

or stuffed between the couch cushions. A few weeks ago Gramma's toilet wasn't working, and Dad found a pink plastic egg in the water tank that had probably been bobbing around in there for YEARS. When Meemaw got older she wasn't as sharp as she used to be, and she started putting strange things in the plastic eggs for prizes. One year I found a green bean, a bottle cap, and a paper clip in my eggs. That was the same year Manny found dental floss in one of HIS.

或者塞在沙发垫中间。 几个星期前，奶奶的马桶坏了，爸爸在水箱里发现了一个粉红色的塑料蛋，可能已经在里面晃了好几年了。 奶奶年纪大了，就不像以前那么机灵了，她开始把奇怪的东西放进塑料蛋里奖品。 有一年，我在鸡蛋里发现了一颗绿豆、一个瓶盖和一个回形针。 同年曼尼在他的一个病人身上发现了牙线。

And I can tell you from experience that a used tissue sounds EXACTLY the same as a five-dollar bill when it's inside a plastic egg. The last Easter egg hunt we had was the year Meemaw passed away. At her funeral, Mom realized Meemaw wasn't wearing her diamond wedding rings. Everybody was all in a panic because that ring had been in the family for three generations, and apparently it was worth a lot of money.

根据我的经验，我可以告诉你，一张用过的纸巾放在塑料蛋里的时候，听起来和一张5美元的钞票一模一样。 我们上次找复活节彩蛋是外婆去世那年。 在姥姥的葬礼上，妈妈发现姥姥没有戴钻戒。 每个人都惊慌失措，因为那枚戒指在家里传了三代，显然它值很多钱。

After the funeral the family went to the rest home where Meemaw and Peepaw lived and turned the place upside down, but they couldn't find the ring anywhere. It got pretty ugly after that. Great Aunt Beatrice accused her sister, Great Aunt Martha, of pocketing the ring for herself. Then Aunt Gretchen said Meemaw promised HER the ring, so if anybody found it, they needed to hand it over. And before you knew it, the whole family was at each others' throats. So that's how things ended the last time we all got

葬礼结束后，这家人去了奶奶和皮婶住的养老院，把那里翻了个底朝天，但他们到处都找不到戒指。 在那之后事情变得很糟糕。 比阿特丽斯姑母指责她的妹妹玛莎姑母把戒指放进了自己的口袋。 格雷琴姨妈说，姥姥答应把戒指给她，所以如果有人找到了，就得把戒指交给她。 在你意识到之前，整个家庭都在互相掐架。 这就是我们最后一次的结局

together, and it's probably the reason we haven't been in one place since. I think the whole ring situation really shook Mom up. She said she hopes NO ONE finds Meemaw's ring, because if someone DOES, it could break up the whole family. But if that means no more visits from Aunt Gretchen and her kids, I have to say I'm all for it. Sunday When it comes to holidays, I'm more of a Christmas guy than an Easter guy.

在一起，也许这就是我们从那以后就没在一起过的原因。 我觉得戒指的事真的让妈妈很震惊。 她说她希望没有人找到外婆的戒指，因为如果有人找到了，可能会让整个家庭破裂。 但如果这意味着格雷琴姨妈和她的孩子们不会再来看我，我得说我完全赞成。 说到节日，我更喜欢过圣诞节而不是复活节。

On Christmas, the second you get home from church, you can just totally unwind. But on Easter you have to stay in your church clothes the whole day, or at least you do in MY family. Today we went straight from church to Gramma's house, and my tie was ALREADY starting to drive me crazy. I was nervous everyone was just gonna pick right back up where they left off after Meemaw's funeral, but when we got to Gramma's everyone seemed to

在圣诞节，你从教堂回家的那一刻，你可以完全放松。 但是在复活节，你必须一整天都穿着教堂的衣服，至少在我家是这样。 今天我们从教堂直接去外婆家，我的领带已经快把我逼疯了。 我很紧张大家会在奶奶的葬礼后又重新开始，但当我们到奶奶家的时候，大家似乎都很紧张