Nana Biography

All right, I don’t know what else now. Let’s see, we went along and got married. We had a good life, and we talked. I think more about the things that bother you than the things that don’t, which is strange, don’t you know? The sad things. One of the nice things that happened in my life was when my mother, who was widowed three times, after she was widowed, after my stepfather died out here she went back to Springfield to live and be near my brother, she met a man that she had known when she was in high school and he was in Princeton. He heard about her being widowed, and he had been separated from his wife, and he called her up and went to see her, they hadn’t seen each other for well, That was when she was 72 and they were in their 20s, so it was around 50 years.

Oh my.

he walked in her house and he took one look at her and said, “well, you’re a damn sight better looking now than you used to be. “And then he asked her to marry him. She called me up and I heard her talk about him and she said, “he wants to marry me and I can’t. He’s a Republican “ (laughs). And we all left at her about this. Anyway, they were married, and they were just marvelous to each other. He dropped dead, and after that, I think that she began to be lonely, and this was on my conscience terribly because I live so far away from her and she didn’t really want to move out here. Her friends were back there and my brother was back there and I think he had Three children.  So I just went back as often as I could, but it was strange because as I was growing up, I didn’t have a perfect relationship with my mother. I mean, I liked her and respected her, but I was a little bit, afraid of her sometimes, and, there was not what you might call a hug between us, And there was after I was married, and after John came into my life, and maybe he brought it all out, I don’t know, but suddenly I felt very close to her.

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