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CONVERSATIONS WITH MINNIE EVANS

Back of Tape No. 2T

MINNIE:  Well, I became disturbed, so that I came back in the house.  I didn't know what to do.  My mother called--had David to call me up to ask me didn't I want to come out there.  We were living two and a half miles from any of them, back down there.  She told me since then that she was worried, David was worried, they all was worried, but they didn't know why or how.  And I refused, said, "No, I'm not coming up."  "So, well how do you feel?"  I said, "I'm perfectly well.  I'm all right. Everything's all right."  But I couldn't have [[strikethrough]] been [[/strikethrough]] went.  I believe I would have dropped dead if I had persevered to try to go.  So when I came into the house, went in my front bedroom, I sat on one side of the bed.  I said, "What is the matter?"  Something spoke to me like this: "Why don't you draw or die?"  I said, "Is that it?"  I went and got that piece of cardboard--that piece of card--that piece of box that Rebecca gave me, and went in there and put it on my workbench where I was drawing and taken a piece of black crayon and put it in my hand.  Never in my life have I ever did anything or worked like I worked on that picture.  Something had my hand just like that picture there.  Thing turning round.  Just going, not knowing what I was doing, pre- perspiration pouring off me.  I hadn't ate or drank or anything all day.  So I just worked on that.  I worked on that picture.