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 quite a large amount. Every time I wanted to do something, I'd
 say, "Well, alright Dee, I'll take Papa's money." But he never
 let me touch Papa's money. He'd always spend his money. I didn't
 know it; I really thought I was digging into my own money and
 taking these trips.

J: When did Papa die?

C: In March, 1936.

J: Did he suffer any real complications from the time that Bertha,
 his wife, died?

C: Yes. He just never was himself after that. It's very sad; he
 just really didn't want to live. He had no reason to go on. She
 was sick five years and we all just were centered around Momma and
 that illness. I think that maybe both of us just really let it
 get us, and that trip that we took after she died was not good.
 We both thought that when we came back, she'd still be here. You
 have to have time after something like that.

J: What was she sick from?

C: She had a breast malignancy. She had it removed. Dr. West did it,
 and everything was clear. X-ray had just come in and they recom-
 mended it, and she went to Jacksonville and took that x-ray. She
 really died from an overexposure of x-ray. It cooked the lungs,
 and it was as if she had tuberculosis. She'd run .a little fever
 every afternoon. There was no germ but the lining of the lung was
 cooked, as we understood it. She was a very frail, thin woman, and
 evidently gave her the treatment that they would give a healthy,
 strong person.

J: Did you and your brother Paul lose contact during the years?

C: No. When Paul and Connie were married, Dee and I were in their
 wedding, and they were in our wedding. We just couldn't have got-
 ten along without Paul and Connie. We depended on them, and they
 depended on us, especially when you boys were born.

J: They lived up the street, and when did they build their house?

C: Oh, before we did, and they moved in before we did. We moved in
 about September, and they had been up there. They added an up-
 stairs to their house, and changed it completely.

J: Did your upstairs basically stay the same, then, except for the
 overhang?

C: That's right. When we walked out of our bedroom, we walked right
 out into the open air. We lived here about three or four years
 before they did that.