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- [Teresa] Okay, Paula, we have one
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of those magnanimous moments of your life coming up again.
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It comes around every time, every time once a year.
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And that'll be your birthday.
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- Do we have to talk about it?
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- [Teresa] Of course we have to talk about it.
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What were your birthdays like when you were little?
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- You know, I don't recall.
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- [Teresa] You don't? You didn't...
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I, I only remember one birthday
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and it was my 13th birthday I believe.
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And grandmother and granddaddy Paul were up from Florida.
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They had come to see us and
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started drinking a little Maker's Mark.
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And my granddaddy Paul was tipsy.
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So I said, "granddaddy, this is an important birthday.
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Gimme something, what ya got in your wallet?"
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I think I wound up getting him for $300.
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- [Teresa] That's impressive.
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- Yes. And that's really the only one I remember
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because I laugh, you know, being a January baby,
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momma and daddy were paying bills from December,
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so I don't ever recall
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birthdays being made a big deal.
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- [Teresa] Not even like you didn't have a
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favorite cake? Or like.
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- Well, all, all the cakes.
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My mother and grandmother made were wonderful.
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Both of my grandmothers.
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I loved my grandmother Harris's butternut cake.
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She's the only person I've ever seen make that cake
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And what, what was her other fave?
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Her carrot cake recipe is in,
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I think it's actually
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in a couple of my books because it's so good.
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It needs repeating and I have not changed
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that recipe in any way except to add raisins.
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- [Teresa] So what do did you do for the boys
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to make their birthdays special?
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- You know, I did have them birthday parties.
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I remember having birthday parties.
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- [Teresa] Do they have all these crazy
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themed birthday parties like they have now?
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- No, back then, you know,
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my children are getting old Teresa.
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I'm almost embarrassed to tell how old they are
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cuz that just reminds me that, you know
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I didn't have them when I was 10 years old.
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Yeah. Yeah. We always had a birthday party for them.
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But it's, it's funny how
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I don't remember birthdays, but
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you know, not just that.
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I don't remember except that one birthday where
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I got my granddaddy Paul for $300 and mama took me shopping.
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I could hardly wait to get downtown.
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That $300 burned a hole in my pocket.
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It, oh, I just went and bought me a bunch of clothes.
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- [Teresa] So do, what do birthdays mean to you now?
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- Well, what birthdays mean to me now is
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I'm so thankful and grateful
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for every day that I get because coming
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that, that has short lifespans, you know
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I never thought I'd lived to be turning 76 years old.
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So I'm very, very grateful.
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But I don't like a big deal made out of birthdays.
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I guess that goes back to when I was a child.
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It's just a day I like to get up and say
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And just to be here with my children and my grandchildren
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and my husband and his children, you know, it just
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it means a lot to me.
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Means everything to me.
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Cuz you know, some of us need longer
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need longer here to make things right.
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I guess. I don't know.
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- [Teresa] Well, we all at Paula Dean
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are so grateful to have you
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and we all wanna wish you a happy birthday.
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Now that's the kind of birthday I like to have, Teresa.
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Just a simple happy birthday, Paula
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or happy birthday Mama
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is, is all that I could hope for.
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- [Teresa] So everyone on January 19th
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do a little shout out to Paula for her birthday.
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- Yes. Y'all remind me that I'm old now. Okay.
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Y'all all jump in and remind me,
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you know but I don't feel old up here.
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I feel old right here, these knees
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But other than that I feel great.
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And you know what I've decided
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that I'm gonna have to take after my Aunt Peggy
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because she and I are very much alike in many ways.
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Yeah, she's 93, isn't she Eddie?
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- [Eddie] Yeah. Yeah, she'll, yeah, she'll be...
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- [Teresa] 94 for this year.
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- Yeah, 94 this year.
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I got a long time left.
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And so that would gimme about 20 years
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and she will be 114 and I expect for her to be here.
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Bye y'all have a great day.
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And for those out there that share my birthday
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happy birthday to y'all too.
