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you." So she didn't pay any mind to it. Till a friend of hers was on a vacation came there to spend the say with her and so she said, "Why you keep runnin' in here and no one don't call you?" I said, "Miss Wilson, someone called me all the time. Just as soon as I get up in the mornin' until I go to bed at night. 'Minnie!' Or 'Minnie.' Sound just like Mama." So she said, "don't you answer them any more until you come and--come to your mother and ask her, 'Mama, did you call me?' Just don't answer." She said, "That's a spirit in a--" She talked funny. She said, "You going to be goin' to the boneyard directly--" (Laughs) --the cemetery. She said, "That's some kind of spirit that's callin' you." And then Mama and someone would notice that I was getting very pale. Mama say, "You sick, man. You got no pains?" I said, "No." She said, "Your eyes are getting deeper. What's the matter?" Well, I remember then, sometime, and "Minnie!" And I'd start to answer and I'd go then to Mama. Mama'd be sewing. I know she didn't call. (Unintelligible section on tape.) But that's in my life. I haven't ever slept like anyone else. I have drempt all of my life. Now, I will tell you--I think that was about two or three before! were married--I guess it was that long, I don't know about the time. But I drempt of seeing airplanes. I hadn't ever seen one in a book or heard tell of one or anything, but I drempt about those things and I couldn't tell her what they looked like. I told her, "Mama, they was some kind of things [[strikethrough]] nobody [[/strikethrough]] looked like--mosquito hawks or butterflies--flying in the air, and they was dropping fire down on us." She said, "Well, what are you talking about?" I said, "Well,