The other day my girlfriend bought me something that was so simple yet so thoughtful and it also brought back a ton of memories from my childhood. She bought me some of those real small cherry pies in a little package but they weren't just any cherry pies. They were made by a company called Towne House. When I was growing up they were my favorite.
These pies could only be found at one store in town at that was at the Five Points General Store in Dana, NC. It was one of the old fashioned general stores in the community that men gathered at to talk and talk about manly stuff and to escape from the women folk. It was like Wally's Filling Station on The Andy Griffith Show. Pops would take me there, we would hang out around the wood stove in the winter for a couple of hours, I would get an RC Cola and a cherry pie, and that was as good as it got.
I had never told my girlfriend any of these stories and that was what made her gesture so nice. It was something thoughtful and brought back so many fond memories of my childhood but more importantly, it brought back great memories of my father.
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