Nana Biography

Did I tell you about that? Yes, I think I brought that up. I think my mother, she never – then she found out about the poker game, I think someone did tell her once, and, she found out, but she never thought those things were terrible, but Like the poker game, later on when I talked about it when we knew each other well enough, and I could reminisce and tell her those things I had done and didn’t she know, and she said, “ oh, all kids are like that “, and she just put that out.

That was later on.

Yes, yes. After we could talk about things, but even after I was married for quite a while, my mother was out here, she would ask me questions about sex that I one time she said to me, “Nancy, if you ever find out what lesbians do, will you let me know? “ (laughs.) because she was curious about all this, because she was so protected all her life, and I said, “you just have to imagine. They either go ahead to tail or they strap something on. “She said, “oh, you’re kidding. “I said, “yes, they buy things in stores and they strap them on that way or use their hands. “ She was fascinated, and she was 60 years old, and suddenly she said, oh I don’t know. Sex has been the problem with the whole world. I think that’s what’s causing all the problems. But anyway, I had a naughty little childhood, in other words, I did think that I would have talked it over with my family, but nothing harmful, I’m sure.

But at the time did you think they were pretty bad? 

No, I just thought they were naughty. You know, it made me feel bad to go and take money out of her purse when I did, quarters or nickels or something if she had a lot of change I take some, and yes, I used to go around with… But then I was so prepared for motherhood that I was six steps in front of my kids, I think (laughs).

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