"My father wasn't too good of a person; he put my mother into a nutty hospital when I was only 4 years old." |
"Two men came into the house and grabbed a hold of my mother. I begged them not to take her away. It was very pitiful. My father did that to me." |
"He had her sent away because she wouldn't do what he wanted her to do. I bet you ten dollars that he was sorry he ever did that to her." |
"My father used to beat me with a hose. My dad always took out his anger on the weakest one - me! He finally shot himself." |
"Everybody that was either related to me or was my friend - they all died and I'm still living. It seems very strange." |
"I ran away from home before I was in the 7th grade. I got an old suitcase and I filled it with my clothes. I 'borrowed' some money
from my father and I took a train to Chicago." |
"He was sorry when I left. It broke his heart even though he beat the hell out of me." |
"I used to just stare out the window of my cheap Chicago hotel room. At first I was kind of scared;
I mean from a farm in Wisconsin to the big city of Chicago." |
"A man in the barbershop across the street had a place upstairs where people used to dance and I loved to dance so
he gave me a job." |
"I hitchkiked to New York all by myself. It was very scary." |
"When we went together, your grandfather and me, I was very much in love with him
but then he ruined everything. He stole my furniture! He stole my kids!" |
"Your grandfather might have been good to you but he was a RAT! He was a mama's boy. His mother hated me becasue I wasn't a Jew!" |
"To this day, I'm very glad he's down below and I'm up above. God punished him for what he did to me. He stole my kids." |
"I know how to do many things; I know how to do waitress work. I know how to clean a home. When I learned, I could do it better than anybody else." |
"I learned to be a very good waitress. Once I made a $5.00 tip from a cup of coffee. I make very good coffee." |
"I learned to be a ballroom dancer. I'll never forget the day I got the news. I got a letter, 'You are invited to dance at Madison Square Garden.' Oh boy was I happy."
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"When I don't feel good, I always have these horrible fainting spells, I just pass out. As the doctor told me, I'm not going to live very long." |
"I have 3 angels that take care of me. I have only seen one of them but I feel the others. It's very strange." |
