Overheard
Onion juice was my grandmother, Mary Longen’s cureall for her eight children’s colds and flu in Depression-era Gregory, South Dakota.
My father, Edmund and his brothers recall the pervasive and nauseating smells of onions simmering on the stove throughout the winter. Though Ed eventually learned to like them, his older brother Bert vowed that no onion would eve...
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