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can remember now. So Mama, she taken more interest with me because my mother had to get out and go to work. [[strikethrough]] And so [[/strikethrough]] See my grandmother was a seamstress and that caused her to stay home all the time. And she was a very sweet woman. She taken all the interest in the world with me and showing me and telling me about life and what and how life is. And we were just like pals. When I lost her in '35--Thanksgiving Day, around 5:30 in the afternoon-- That makes all Thanksgivings of that time seem very sad. I think of Mama, my grandmother. And she was of a very sweet temper. (Coughs) I wrote--

MRS STARR: Would you like a drink of water?

MINNIE: I start to writing some-- (Coughs) I wrote one of two stories--

MRS STARR: Would you like a drink of water?

MINNIE: What?

MRS STARR: Would you like a drink of water?

MINNIE: What's that?

MRS STARR: Would you like a drink of water?

MINNIE: (Coughs) See. I got another one of these-- You see, that old fluid leaves you terribly bad with this thing, you can't get rid of it right away.

MRS STARR: Minnie, what about your grandmother--your grandfather? Did you have a grandfather?

MINNIE: (Coughs) No, he died when I was very young. (Coughs) I don't remember him much at all. He died. I guess I was just about two or three years old, so that makes me not remember much about Papa. But I remember seeing him, you know, and telling anything about him. But he died up at Long Creek.