| OCR Text |
Show Rose (1/17/83) page 21 Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K ~r. R Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R when I got there I knew that I would have to fend for myself, and I did. What do you mean you're 'not being fair'? Well, I was going to say something like I had a feeling at that point that his res~ons1bilities to ~e were over. When you got there? When he gave me the money to co~e back to go to school here. See, I knew I was going to go to school here, so I had applied to Colorado to send my transfers here, ana I made application at Colorado University. (tape ended) "It's not that I won't help you, it's that I can't help you, because things are not that good with me", and the practical truth of it was that they wanted to but couldn't. All through the time I went to school, I worked a good part of it. I got maybe 2 or 3 letters a month from my mother, and there wasn't one letter that there wasn't at least a $1 bill in it. Every letter I got from my mother had anything fro~ 91 to $5 to $10 in 1t, and I never heard fro~ her that things were either good or bad. When I let.t her things were reasonably good, but I'm talking about now when we went into that depression. My mother, before we went into the depression 4 used to make ladys' silk underwear on order. You mean privately herself? Yes. She had her own little shop, and then with the depression, who bought silk? Yeah, who could afford it? Right. So, rayon took it's place. Well, hell, a woman could go buy a pair of rayon drawers, the way my mother tells it, for $.18, |
