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33. MINNIE: My husband didn't know any better. "Minnie, why?" Until they got to the gate-- And I've sold lots and lots of them to people, not sell them to 'em, just as well give them to 'em. Now in Raleigh, I let a young man have one. I did not want that picture to go. And it was [[strikethrough]] it was [[/strikethrough]] he's in Wake Forest, and it was-- [[?]] MRS STARR: How did you know about it? MINNIE: I think I got it--the most of it--I or Louis thack[[?]] [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]], got it out of our Star News. And you see what he says here--the--something about long life and a whole lot of-- See there? From China, somewhere up in there. I don't understand-- Tibet. That look like from Tibet, don't it? MRS STARR: Yes, it does. MINNIE: Well, anyway, Louis wrote to this man, contact-- MRS STARR: Who was Louis? Who was Louis? MINNIE: Louis Mack. And of course he's dead now and he couldn't say anything. He was doing very well until he started drinking, you understand, and, well-- And he lost a lot of her letters. I had some but he got them and I kept them and he asked me to let him have them back and I never did get the letters from him any more. But he wrote a letter to this man, wanting to know what had he did--done--with those paintings he sent to him. And the man--and they did not send him an answer. So, more than two and a half years-- MRS STARR: Now, wait a minute. You mean, you sent this man,