In the Rose Terrace Nursing home on March 15, 1986, Mrs. Threadgoode is talking to Evelyn about her marriage and her son, Albert. When Ninny was fifteen, Cleo had decided he wanted to marry her. She told him she was too young to be married. She married him at eighteen and still felt she wasn't ready. They had a good marriage and he took good care of her. She had trouble getting pregnant, but at thirty-two, had gotten pregnant and given birth to a twelve pound boy they named Albert.
When the baby didn't sit up and couldn't walk until the age of twenty-one months, they began to worry. Several doctors looked at him, but they couldn't find the problem. Cleo took the baby to the Mayo Clinic. The doctors kept him there for.....
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