Here is another story I remember about school. It's also about my Mama, Pauline Roberts Nelson............"The Little Fur Coat"..........When I was in about the first grade, I was in a school play. Some of the part that I had to play was to sit on this park bench where it was supposed to be wintertime with snow all around. I had on this beautiful fur coat and everyone, including all the teachers, told me how beautiful my fur coat was. I told them that my Mama had made it. I also told them "thank you" because that was how I was raised--to always say thank you when given a compliment. No one could believe that my Mama had made this coat for me though. It didn't look like it was hand-made. It was too beautiful. But yes, she did. She had made it. She stayed up late at night to finish sewing my coat so it would be ready in time for the play. It was a creme colored coat with matching hat and hand warmer. I was very proud of that coat. I was also proud of Mama. She was a person of many talents--some often hidden. She could sew and sing and anything else she put her mind to. She was a woman of many talents and all of them as beautiful as she was...and as beautiful as that fur coat that she had made for me that year for the school play.