Nana Biography

Of course, I was married away from them, then, and it never did affect me much. I felt a little bitter about him, naturally. Him having gone completely under. I didn’t see much of my father after I married, when we got here. Naturally, I corresponded a lot, but I was relieved to be away from them. And that is a terrible feeling. When I did go back and visit it was not really a pleasure , somehow I had a feeling that I had outgrown that area, it isn’t a nice feeling in a way, because that’s where you grew up and had this wonderful childhood. I mean, I had everything in the world, a pony, a dog, and friends, and to move away and be glad I was away from it, I don’t know. 

But life has always been sort of exciting and I can say right now and I think this is probably my most exciting time. I look back and can remember how excited I was before, so each time has been exciting. I have not ever had a dull time in my life. There’s always been one thing. I’ve looked forward to after another. 

And California was super duper, living here at Stanford with a guy in law school that year was fun. We were chaperones for all his friends. We were the only married couple I think in law school. That’s different now, I think, isn’t it And so they always called us and said, “look, we want to take a riverboat trip to Sacramento and would you come along and be our chaperone? “Chaperones were required. So we were the all-time chaperones. We got to bed at nine at night no matter what happened on those boats (laughs).  And life was very, very free and gay and marvelous, and we had, you know, we had an allowance from his family, more than enough to live on at the time, and a car, and everything. I had more money than I had been used to, and the family were wealthy and I enjoyed it, I must admit. It was nice to be married. Sure.  So that was not an unhappy time at all.

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