Nana Biography

That may be a good answer for the way I am, I think. But, I’m very aware when someone in the room is not having a good time. Or when someone has said something that has hurt someone’s feelings. Or either that or my own get hurt. There are parties where somebody pops off. I am , that bounces off Jon like nothing. But to me, I would dwell on it. And I have two or three friends that do this once in a while, I have too much to drink. One lives in the city, and she will unknowingly say something very cutting to me. And of course she doesn’t know she’s doing it. But at the time it just goes through and Used to do that to me. Used to it, I can cope. I’m more secure about that.

She does less, I think .

Oh yes, she’s much softer, I think. But, and it’s only after some little wine and a little something. 

But the law school group in general, I used to be quite a cutting group. 

Oh, they used to sit there and all the time. They would take everybody in the school one by one. It was sort of a form of amusement. Not everybody got cut, but they sort of talked about them. 

But that’s new to you when you came to Stanford or is it something that you had been exposed to? 

Oh, never, I never had been with a group like that in my life, I don’t think ever. No, our parties were entirely different, the kind of parties I went to when I was going up, were balls, dances, or just plain. we would do all these things, or else going out to dinner.

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