Taylor, the daughter of a sharecropper, was born Cora Walton in Memphis, Tennessee in 1928 and adopted her stage name because of her love for chocolate.
There was something else, too: Taylor brought along a gift for her daughter, her not-so-June-Cleaver with a salty sense of humor -- "Truly Tasteless Jokes" by Blanche Knott.
Trying to interpret her daughter's vague reference to unexpected hardship leads to new concern, but Taylor knows she has to keep her composure and make sure her loved ones overseas are confident everything is fine on the home front.