She also always made us tater tots to go with whatever we had for lunch or dinner at her house, regardless of the fact that we kept getting older and out grew a “kids” menu. I think the last time she’s madecthem for me to go with lunch I was in my late teens and at college...

Natalie was a good friend of my family, she was an absolutely amazing woman. The first time I met her she sat with me and helped me with my take home test on Tuck Everlasting from my 6th grade English teacher and called half the questions “bunk” “poppycock” and “bullshit.” She then wrote a note telling my teacher to…