Enough by sharon jaynes6/30/2023 ![]() He saw firsthand the difference it made to stand up straight. I watched Steven’s eyes grow wide as Papa grew tall. Then he took a deep breath and extended his curved back to its fullest upright position. My 77-year-old father-in-law, who was about five-foot-ten, stood with his back against the doorframe. We were measuring and marking various family members’ heights on the dining room door frame. Then one night my father-in-law took care of it for me. I tried my best not to say, “If you don’t sit up, I’m going to buy you a back brace from Sears.” He didn’t know what to do with all that height, so he slumped. Then I had a son who seemingly grew to six feet overnight. “If you don’t sit up,” she would say, “I’m going to buy you a back brace from Sears.” I don’t even know if Sears made back braces then, but it sounded like a pretty good threat to me. When my brother was a teenager, my mother used to threaten him when he hunched over at the dinner table. ![]()
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