This story, A Christmas Memory, is a nonfiction reminence of one fond memory of Capotes.
        A distant relative of Truman Capotes, Sook Faulk, took care of him through his childhood. Sook dubbed Truman with the nickname Buddy, subsequently a former best friend. During one November morning, when Buddy was s make up, Sook distinguishable it was fruitcake weather. She called him to brace their buggy and her hat to go clean pecans. Queenie, their terrier who has survived illness and snake bites, follows them on their errand. After picking pecans for cardinal hours, Buddy and Sook began hulling their buggyload. The discussion during dinnertime was the need of materials to make the cakes, and the neglect of funding to do so. Sook and Buddy begin reminiscing ab erupt how they managed to tuck their meager sums. People in the house donate a dime or two. Buddy and Sook make some cash by selling jams and jellies, rounding up flowers for funerals and weddings, rummage sales, contests, and even a Fun and Freak museum. The secret fund is incomprehensible in an old beaded round out under a loose board in the floor. They never remove the purse from under Sooks bed unless making a deposit or a ten-cent withdrawal on Saturdays. She allots Buddy ten cents to go to the picture show each Saturday.
Sook has never visited one before, simply asks Buddy to go instead to come back and key she the stories of the picture show. After dinner, Sook and Buddy retire to a means in a faraway part of the house where her sleeps at night, to count their treasure. When finished counting, Buddy declares the total was thirteen dollars. Sook, macrocosm a very superstitious person, throws a penny out of the window. The next morning Sook and Buddy go to town...
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