Nana Biography

And he sat me down and said, “I want a divorce “. And I said, “who in the world – why “you know. And I said, “is there someone else?”  And he said, “yes there is, it’s Clyda. “And I said, “who is Clyda?”  And he said, “you know that girl “. I had met her once in a meeting and I said, “you’re kidding! You’re kidding! “I thought she was just horrible. He said, “I’ve never been in love before, I don’t think, and anyway, I want a divorce. “ 

I just went absolutely cold. I mean, I don’t know what happened to me. Not because I loved him so much, but just the family thing, it just hit me. I said, “have you told your family? “, And he said, “yes “. No, excuse me no, he hadn’t told his family, this all happened later, that was Sunday night. I said, “you can’t go to work tomorrow morning, let’s keep the kids out of school and go off someplace and talk it over. “And he was willing to do that. And so I think we went to the beach. He was absolutely approachable. I mean, I couldn’t hold his hand, I couldn’t touch him. He was very cold. He had made up his mind. He was that way, just like his dog. He was very stubborn. So all I did was, I didn’t plead and cry, that’s not my technique, but I just couldn’t understand why. 

Well, I really think that in 12 years, we deserve some sort of a counselor together, and he said, Yes, he would. So we made, he made the arrangements with someone in town, and it turned out this psychiatrist, or psychologist, I don’t know which it was, was an intimate friend of Clyda's, and she had been going to her for a long time. It was very unfair. I had known that…

You were talking about this psychiatrist.

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