Nana Biography

So I told her we were going to a different Sunday school, and that afternoon we were going to go down and have lunch with the Edwards, seniors. So we went to the Sunday school, I never thought anything about it, we went down there, and Bruce, H5, ran up and said, “gay gay, we went to a new Sunday school this morning, and they had white rats in the museum. “And she looked up and said “where was this, Nancy?“  and I said, “I’ve taken them out of the Sunday school for the time being. “She got very mad at me, and she said, “you just really are going to confuse the children, “she told me all those things, and I turned on her, that was the only time, and said, “my own mother would not tell me where to send my children to Sunday school, that is my decision. They are under my care. “I said, “when they reach the age that they can choose for themselves, that’s fine. “But I said, “when they go to this school, they are not given any doctrine.“I really did tell her off, but I was firm. I’m kind of proud of myself. And she was very angry and shaken, I could see. This was her life. She was so imbued in it.

In the church.

Yes, and all her friends were practitioners, and all they talked about, were platitudes all the time so it was a tough thing for me to say this to her, and she kept saying, “you know, I don’t think you would have divorced if you had been stronger in Christian science. “And I said, “ You know no divorced couples? “Then she took that back. All right, I went home, and I was not in the house more than a little while, when she called up crying, and she said, “I apologize. “She was just darling, she said, “I had no right to do that. “And I said, “thank you. “And we cried over the phone and it was lovely. I really loved her. She was a nice woman. And I understand why she was the way she was, but I don’t understand why her son couldn’t recognize thatand why he tortured her with that awful, 10 reasons why I’ll always hate you. “

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