Nana Biography

But they, they have a life there, you know – it seems boring to me, I think that his wife is beginning to get to the point where she, where most women arrive, with no training and no child and children going out of the house. I think it’s really bothering her. And Shelby is trying to get her to get into something. She is trained to teach maladjusted children in a home. She has some sort of, she can teach them swimming from the junior league, or something like that. So she got to get back into that, because she really hates to have her children leave home, and unlike me, I was delighted when they left home. And that’s not because I didn’t love them, I was really ready. I mean, the mother bear put those bears up in the tree and one off and left them. I was sad for a second, but to me that’s a whole New World.

So you’re welcomed the new life stage.

Absolutely, I didn’t even look upon the fact that my kids were going to leave home as a tragedy or something awful. I know a lot of mothers do. What do I do when my little darling leaves? Because I left home early, and I think it’s appropriate not to cling to your children. I think it is, and I feel sorry for women who depend on their children for their existence. And you’re being smart, got your PhD. I mean, it is smart.

Yes, well, works at it

Yes.

Just like you did.

Yes, but you’re doing it much sooner, and at a much more intellectual kind of thing.

Listen, the contents of your work, but it’s very intellectual, it’s just that it isn’t sitting down and preparing for an exam.

No.

But you have to learn so much content about what’s good art and what’s not and who’s who and what’s done and the history of it, and the information that you’ve collected, you’d be amazed, if you sat down and started writing it.

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