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Notes: The 7 sisters who were Aunt Alice's brother's daughters, along with their growing families, always had Thanksgiving dinners at Aunt Alice Romberg's house in the country part of Texas, Gonzales (name of city and county) to be exact. All the pecans came from her huge tree-lined yard. Gayle continued to have Thanksgiving in Gonzales after marriage to Tom. Texas is the home to great pecan pie and Houston is the home to fantastic Brazos Bottom Pecan pie (available in a wooden box for shipping). However great these various pecan pies may be, to Tom and others, none compare to aunt Alice's pecan pie.
Gayle and Tom were married in Aunt Alice's backyard where the pecan trees grew by her uncle John Romberg, who was County Judge for Gonzales County on October 22, 1960. John Romberg also provided the marriage license while Gayle provided the happiness to Tom which has lasted through the decades and continues undiminished.
The rose is not the rose unless thou see;
Without good wine, spring is not spring for me.
Without thy tulip cheek, the gracious air
Of gardens and of meadows is not fair.
Thy rosy limbs, unless I may embrace,
Lose for my longing eyes full half their grace;
Nor does thy scarlet mouth with honey drip
Unless I taste its honey, lip to lip.
Vainly the cypress in the zephyr sways,
Unless the nightingale be there to praise.
Nothing the mind imagines can be fair,
Except the picture that it makes of her.
Surely good wine is good, and green the end
Of gardens old—but not without the Friend.
HAFIZ, the metal of thy soul is base:
Stamp not upon it the Beloved's face.
Hafiz (Khwaja Shams-ad-din Muhammad Hafiz ) - The Rose is not the rose unless thou see, "Odes from the Divan of Hafiz : freely rendered from literal translations" By Richard Le Gallienne,1866-1947, Publisher London Duckworth, 1905, Page 82 - ODE 155
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