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I didn't know what it looked like or what it was. But just something drawing. So around five, I guess I would have finished. I finished it all but one little place. So when my husband came-- the gas had give out of his car and he had to come home and leave it out at the gate-- he come runnin' just as hard as he could. And I wondered-- I said, "What are you runnin' so for?" And he ran into the house and say, "Hey, how are you doin'? You all right?" I say, "Yeah. What's the matter?" He said, "Nothin'. I just felt kind of funny about you and I wanted to come see about you knowing you was here by yourself." I say, "Oh, well, I'm perfectly all right." I got up and went on in there to fix some supper. So he said, "I'll get my supper." He knew what I had left for breakfast. I said, "I haven't cooked anything." And he said, "Minnie," he said, "you're going to die if you don't stop going about here - stop eating and things like you--" And I said, "No, I'm not going to do that either." So I sat up there and talked with him. And so after a while David came. And he had called me up to ask me did he want someone, want him to send someone for me. Said, "No, I don't want anyone whatever to come. I must stay home." So I sat there and talked with them up until after we ate supper, about 11:30. Well, they didn't want to -- They-- I knew Julius was tired and wanted to go to bed, and they wasn't -- So I wouldn't sit up any longer. I went to bed so they could go to bed. So, slippin' around or something till five o'clock a bumb--something dropped a bumb on the house and it frightened me so bad I jumped out of the bed and some-- Frightened Julius. He didn't hear that, I'm the one that heard the onliestone. He said, "Minnie, what's the matter with you?" I said, "Didn't you hear that