Nana Biography

Because I knew, and I knew that they were stealing from the store, the grocery store one day, we handled it very well and they came home and I knew they had taken something. I said, “Leonard “, and most kids do things like that . “It’s not anything terrible that you did, but you have to go up and pay for it, and tell him that you took it. Because if you just keep on doing it, you might do it all your life. You might think it was OK. “, I didn’t let them think it was fun, and I went up and let him out of the car and he had to go to the grocery store and say he forgot to pay the nickel and the man thanked him. I said, “Leonard, do you ever take anything after that? “And he said, “certainly. “ (laugh.) so, whether he did or didn’t, I don’t know. 

But one thing I liked that my mother did was raising me. I was popular and I was out all of the time every night, all summer long, every night I went out. And I did not even ever want to stay home, because if my father was in, he would start talking to the boy and I could not trust him in what he’d say. When I went on a date, the boy came and I was all dressed and out the door when we went, and, what was I going to say about that… i’ve sort of forgotten what I was going to say there. Oh, my mother, when I first started to date, said, “I don’t care what the other kids do, but on weekends, you to be in by 10, and weekends you can stay out a little later. If you go to a dance, you come home right after the dance, and if going to go to somebody’s house to have hot chocolate or whatever you do, call me. So that I had rules and if I wasn’t in, what it did was give me an excuse so that I didn’t have to go driving around the countryside. Living in a little town, with two movies, and dances, and when you’ve seen the two movies, what do you do on a date, you drive around and neck at this gave me an excuse, not to do that. And I was awfully glad of her rules. I felt that those boundaries were marvelous.

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