Many years ago Jeanette Clift George, the actress who played Corrie Ten Boom in the movie The Hiding Place, was speaking at a luncheon held in the civic auditorium of a city in Oklahoma. She says: I settled myself at my place at the head table. I picked up my fork and noticed that two rose-petaled radishes adorned my salad plate. Someone had take the time to pretty up two radishes, just for me. Then I noticed that each salad at the head table had two neatly curled radishes. I turned to the lady sitting to my right. "I'm impressed by the radishes," I said. "You're impressed by what?" she asked. "The radishes," I said. "Look, each salad plate at our table has curled radishes." "Yes," she said, exercising a questioning smile. "They're pretty." "They're more than pretty," I said. Someone took …
I'll Keep Curling the Radishes
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by Jeanette Clift George
by Jeanette Clift George
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