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Show Rose (1/17/83) page 5 Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. B. From the standpoint of wealth •• oh boy •• oh boy •• from the standpoint of wealth there were an awful lot of us who were hungry in our earlier days, I mean can remember being hungry in our earlier days. That's a sore spot, huh? Still painful? No, I wouldn't say I feel any pain over it, it's just that I hate like hell to have the notion that anybody would have to undergo it. What do you mean by 'have to go hungry'? Not eat. Like for how long? Well, you're asking me to remember bac~ when I'm 3,4,5 years old, and I can say this that my memories are ••• I can remember taking a knife and a loaf of bread up to my mother and my mother cutting me a piece of bread when I was •• I don't know what age. But if you ask me for intervals, I haven't got intervals. I would be inclined to say that there wasn't always bread in the house, but I can't tell you it wasn't there for a week, you see, I wouldn't have the slight-est concept of how long. That was before I started getting pushed from one aunt to another. I think that's the big reason my mother turned me over to my aunts, you know, one at a time. She never turned me over except for care and security and stuff like that and she paid what she could. While you were with your aunts, what were your parents doing? My father was someplace out in the west, but my mother was working. I remember when my mother went to work for Lane Bryant, and she worked for them for lots and lots of years. She became a floor lady with them, and of course, that was prosperity, you know, at that time. And I guess about the time she went to work for Lane |
