Nana Biography

Well, I was never tortured as a child. I had, you know, I had all the comforts of life, and it sometimes makes you feel guilty when you think about other people. It really does. I can always, you know, put aside all of India and all those other people over there, there’s so many of them that it doesn’t matter, but just two or three at a time… we always had a foster child, you know, as we were growing up.

I didn’t know that.

In a foster parent home, we had one in Italy that we rode to and sent money to, and went to visit. And then when he was able to cope, we had one in Greece, and that was a very nice thing for the kids. I made them write to them too.

We have one too.

Do you? Where is yours?

I think in the Philippines.

I think it’s a wonderful arrangement. Especially if the children are involved. Because when we went to Greece, Sam and Bruce were with us, and they went up and got the little boy and brought him down to stay with us. Oh, and I’ll tell you. He’s an incredible child. And he has written to us and thank us in the most beautiful letter that you ever… He’s married, has a baby, and I think that we helped him exist. We saw his house, I couldn’t believe that people could live there like that. It wasn’t squalled it was just – there wasn’t anything in it, there’s a dirt floor, and one water faucet, and Blankets and stuff. We gave him a lot of things.

One of the things I talked about last night and maybe we could throw around a little bit now, and that is, I guess on your stepfather’s side there was sort of an old southern family – many generations.

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