Nana Biography

Anger or sorrow or both?

Both. Anger and sorrow, no not sorrow, hate. Really resentment. It came out so that I was almost screaming, I was out in the middle of the floor, and everybody was crying. Some of them were just wonderful and one of them got up and came over and put his arms around me and said, you are brave, Nancy, and everybody was going like this. So finally, the teacher said, “go back, go back everybody. “Write down his name on a piece of paper. This was his gesture “and then tear it up and throw it away. Get rid of him. “ That idea, and I said, OK, and I guess, you know, I what it did was, I let out a lot of stuff, but it’s still there, I can tell. Since that time he has called me several times, not on any special things, but to get the kids numbers, telephone numbers, or address, or something, and only once over the whole year, he said, “Nancy, I’ve never said this to you, I know, “he said, “but I wanted you to know that I am terribly proud of the boys, and I give you and John all the credit“and I said, “thank you very much. “You know, I was not, that’s very nice of you, big deal, you know. And, just recently, and I guess that’s why it’s on my mind, he sent me a little newspaper, that had been printed by the San Jose country club. The first year we were married, 1938, and it said on it, headlines, Mr. and Mrs. Don Edwards win bridge tournament, and then something about the bridge tournament, and on the back was Mrs. Don Edwards wins second in the golfing tournament, or something. And he had his lovely Congress card, and honored he said, “we were pretty famous and, weren’t we. “  I told by anger and Leonard, he comes out and sees them, and anger by the way, resents him now, because of the way he does not see his grandson, and they invite him to dinner, and he forgets to come, and he’s not very cooperative there, since he’s been out here, he pumps them about us.

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