Daily News | Philly’s Candy Lady. You know her. And never count her out.
You know it’s the Candy Lady even from far away. She often has her hair in a puff and from a distance she looks like she’s floating, moving with a box full of candy on her head. In the box that she’s balancing, there’ll be Sour Patch Kids, and Milky Ways, and Dots, M&Ms and Reese’s Pieces, and more, often in smaller boxes themselves, like candy from a concession stand.
She used to venture out, into public spaces, into salons and into barbershops, into longtime relationships with business owners throughout the city. She visited so many places so persistently that she forged an impression on local memory, especially within Black Philadelphia. Here, she’s a celebrity.
Her path toward the big time is winding and unclear. But, she’s never counted herself out, and never counts out her city. How she’ll make it can’t be predicted, but if you know the Candy Lady, you know she never gives up. When Jones died at 71 in late 2009, everything unraveled. “It still hurts. I’m still trying to get used to being on my own,” Morrison shared. “I don’t have that home that I can go back to.”
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