Harry loved oatmeal cookies and early on began to call his wife his sweet little Oatmeal Cookie, fondly, like Sugar or Honey. He shortened the pet name not to Cookie as some men might have, but to Oatmeal, or sometimes just Oats. Their friends picked it up and so Oatmeal became her nickname, appropriate for someone with her sweet, bland nature, her light brown hair and her habit of dressing in browns and tans. At the local town library where she worked she kept her boringly average first name, which soon ceased to feel like hers at all.

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