Trivia on a slow night (my new sig file)

[Omaha Steve]

I borrowed a paragraph, shortened it, and changed a single word. Does anyone know what favorite book of mine I took this from?

Yes I'm a Husker and Packer fan BTW.

OS

[Spirochete]

1. This Google using cheater (me)

seems to believe it's " A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote

[Omaha Steve]

2. CORRECT! The FULL paragraph (by Truman Capote)

A woman with shorn white hair is standing at the kitchen window. She is wearing tennis shoes and a shapeless gray sweater over a summery calico dress. She is small and sprightly, like a bantam hen; but, due to a long youthful illness, her shoulders are pitifully hunched. Her face is remarkable - not unlike Lincoln's, craggy like that, and tinted by sun and wind; but it is delicate too, finely boned, and her eyes are sherry-colored and timid. "Oh my," she exclaims, her breath smoking the windowpane, "it's fruitcake weather!"

The FULL short story is here: http://www.wepsite.de/Capote,%20A_Christmas_Memory.htm

I have read this to my children and grandchildrens classes at school.