Where did he get the poison?
In the garage of the house we were renting, we don’t know what it was, but it wasn’t arsenic. Anyway, he was fine in 10 minutes. When Leonard came out to the doctor, it was very good. He was examined, I wasn’t there when he was examined, we got down to the street, and I said, “did everything go all right? “, And he looked up and said, “it was just disgusting. “ (both laugh). “ so anyway he was fine, and Sam had the same thing, and he said the same thing, and everybody was fine, and you know, what else do you do? I mean, that’s it. And then they had polio shots, or whatever that came along. Then they went to Ford country Day school and they had vaccinations, they had to be vaccinated, you know, so it wasn’t stupid.
What did Leonard think was disgusting about it, just his privacy, being violated?
I think so, I think probably.
It wasn’t the Christian science?
No, no. They really enjoyed there. They went to Sunday school every Sunday, Christian science Sunday school, and sang their little hymns, we all got dressed and did that. I went to sometimes Wednesday night service. I didn’t care what Sunday school they went to, and that was what the family wanted, we all went to Sunday school. I think when the children were a little older, now, knowing what I know, and the whole thing, maybe we just wouldn’t have done it. We would’ve gone like the Packer children say that we don’t believe in God, most people do, I could never you know Nancy story, and therefore we don’t talk about these other people, but I don’t thinkit ever heard them. And I think the ceremony and the whole thing and then when we went to the Unitarian church, it was great, because that satisfied me. You don’t have to believe in God to go to the unitary in church, and the minister there was so great, and that was good.
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