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I slowly backed away from it, but its image was already burned into my brain. My heart skipped a couple of beats, and my breathing became irregular. No! I was not having a cardiac problem. I was experiencing the pecan pie syndrome.

It is all my mom’s fault. She started it many years ago. My mom was barely 5 feet tall, but she was a dynamo. She could cover a lot of ground in one day. Her Catholicism was paramount in her life. Her faith gave her strength during the challenging times,...