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"I seen you. You were in a big auditorium. The people just gathered and gathered around you." All so much of things like that. Now, I've had four or five people to tell me that. "Minnie, I've seen you--" We have a lady up here--I saw her last Monday when I went to the doctor. She was up there too, a Madam Tom--Thompson. We call her Madam Tom. She's a great fortuneteller herself. She tells-- I oughta not put that on there.

MRS STARR: What's that?

MINNIE: I say I ought not to put that in there about Madam Tom.

MRS STARR: Why not?

MR STARR: Oh, sure.

MINNIE: That's right. But she told me herself, that I-- that every time I go to her, she'd see me in this big congrega--big audience--on big stages and the people were just gathered in piles around you. The last time I went to her she told me this. She say, "You are the only person in the world I want to be like." She said, "I wished I was you." And she say, "You the only one." And she follows me clean out the do', clean out the room. She say, "You keep it up [[strikethrough]] stop [[/strikethrough]]." She say, "You got it coming to you." She say, "You the only one I've ever wanted to be like." And so Madam Tula, she--she told me all so much about what was gonna happen. Well, anyway, that Monday--that was after--after-- I went up there that Friday, so let's see now, let me see, I'm ahead of my story. Wednesday night--Thursday-- You see, Thursday, cause it was on Friday--Thursday night the evening my son David had come home and we