Nana Biography

When you were a kid, you talked about having a cousin. 

Oh, Monica.

She used to stay over, and…

Yes, we grew up together. We were so close. We were kids together, she would come down to Kent Kentucky and my grandfather would get a pony for her, and we each had a pony, and we got up in the morning and we rode those ponies, and we just went exploring all over the fields. It was country, and we could go for miles on these ponies, all through peoples farms, and take our lunch, and I think I told you we went into the race track one time and ran our ponies around the track one morning, and we had a race, around the thing, and somebody saw us, and called up my stepfather, who was absolutely furious. We had to go through town to get to this race track. We were always being punished because we did naughty things.

How was she related to you?

She’s my mother‘s brother‘s child, and we were terribly close as little children. When it came to the point of boys and dates, unfortunately, Monica was physically very unattractive, which I never was aware of as a little girl, but she was, she came down and we were starting to go to country club dances, and things like that, I had the better dates, I realize that it wasn’t easy. She’s bright she’s made on her own, she’s becoming an animal physiologist and a professor at the university of Pennsylvania, now she’s a teacher she never married. It’s sad.

Was she the same age?

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