Nana Biography

I don’t find that totally honest, but I don’t care, you know, that’s their problem. She came to me and said, “what do I do, what do I do? “, And I told her I would never say yes or no to that one, so don’t ask me. Leonard, there was a rift there. Religion can be terrible, I think, and I think my family when they found out that I had married, oh, they knew it was a Christian Science family, and they knew that my mother in–law and father-in-law didn't drink, and I begged them not to serve liquor at my wedding. I said, “Mother, you can’t, because they’re going to be in there and it’s just would not be right. “ And my mother said, “look, we can’t have a reception here in this house and have my friends to it and not serve something to drink.“ (laughs) “People would wonder what it happened to me." “

So they had champagne and they had scotch and they had bourbon, and they had a lot of stuff to drink. I was the one who was the most worried about the whole thing, I thought it was going to be awful. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards didn’t give a darn. They had a good time. of course they didn’t drink, but a lot of my father’s friends got tight, including my father, but they didn’t notice it because they didn’t know him.

Did you introduce them?

Yes, and I guess the party went on for hours after we left. It bothered me because I didn’t want her to think that I came from a family that was a bunch of drunks.

So the wedding wasn’t too good?

No, and the wedding just went off terribly, and the worst part of it was that my boyfriend, Nathan, came to the wedding, and I saw him when I went down the aisle, and he was invited to the reception and did not come to it, and somebody told me later he just went home,

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