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Waco 98

a[[crossed]]l stamp of marriage, whereas I have been married to you in my heart these past six months, and whether our love is ever physically consummated or not, we are more truly married than most people this minister ties to-gether."

Buddie wore his new little white sailor suit, with the much coveted long sailor pants, without the whistle, and held Sam's right hand. Sam held me close in the other arm, despite the minister's obvious discomfiture, After Sam said, " I do," tears escaped down his cheeks, and he pulled me off the floor to his height, kissing me like a fond Amen. Buddie chirped right up with, "Are you and me ... and Mama, married now, Sam?" This continued to be the most different ceremy the minister had ever participated in, I was sure. So different, that it honored his calling, andneeded not the show of ceremony. the money that Sam slipped theminister afterwards must have been as generous as his every gesture. For the minister changed his pained expression, to surprise, concern that a mistake had been made, But Sam reassured him that a marriage like ours was worth more than anyone could pay for in dollars, and The minister left in a state completely removed from  any former experience. Charlie's wife repeated her heresy about Winston-Salem men, and what the minister was used to receiving. ( We can always take cracks at our own with immunity, but let a stranger say the same??) Buddie stuck to Sam like a chigger. We went out to the tiny field and barn, where Charlie kept his fire spitting Avro. He flew passengers on Sunday's and did some advertising, in his spare time. When Buddie wasn't asking questions, of Sam about Wacos, he was telling the kids who had gathered around, that he and I were just married to Sam, pointing with pride to Sam. Charlie was building his Meyer's Midget, tailor-made to his small stature, which flew later in the Phila. races. The next day we took a drawing room to Troy, Ohio. Sam