An In-Law's Tough Love Gives Way To True Friendship

Courtesy NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Fri, 12/04/2009 - 4:20am

Lucille Mascarenas moved from the city to her husband's farm in New Mexico when she got married. It was 1966, and she knew nothing about farming or cooking.

She tells her son how she learned from her husband's stern grandmother and along the way became her friend.

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