Nana Biography

So this struggle, that young people have, in a way I think it’s kind of nice… I wouldn’t have minded that, and maybe there was a part of that. 

I’ll tell you one thing that happened. My ex-husband really didn’t want to stay and work, and I think I mentioned this before in the title company, and so we went to Washington and we went to the FBI , and was accepted. And we went there and live there in a crummy place, and we decided that the money we were getting from his family with some money which they had put into a trust which he had got income from every month, that we would leave it there and not touch it, and live on his money. It would build up and was his way out here, so, we took a terrible cut in our living. We lived on what the FBI was paying which was not very much. 

So we lived in one room, with a tiny kitchen and a tiny bathroom, in Washington, and it was shabby, but you see, we didn’t know anybody except the other FBI agents. I was pregnant, and then the first place that we went was Grand Rapids, Michigan, and we got a very small apartment, but of course we joined a country club, because we both played golf, and I had the baby there. And so most of the friends that we knew were well to do, but we didn’t live in the same style they did, and we didn’t entertain as much, but that never bothered us. 

And then after we’ve been there about a year and a half, and I had a baby, we got a dog, we drove to New York and lived down at one university place in New York in a rather nice apartment, with a kitchenette. We gave the bedroom to the baby and slept in the living room. That was it.

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