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June 21, 1972
evening

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MINNIE EVANS

how you feel? 'You doing all right?' I say yes. I'm doing fine. Then Julius went to my pastor, Rev. S. D. Durham and he talked with him. He say you leave her off.

N.H.S. Good, good.

M.E. Say don't you say another word to her. But she's -. He said No, she's not crazy. Say you the one crazy (laughter) for messing up with her.

N.H.S. Good.

M.E. So I do. This Lawyer Rountree, when I sent to his house about this talk and I was telling him about it (laughter). He said, 'Don't you let Minnie know you a damn fool.' (laughter)

N.H.S. That's what Lawyer Rountree said? 

M.E. Yes, Lawyer Rountree told him 'say you crazy. You leave here alone. She's all right.' He said I thought she was going crazy with painting, doing all them pictures and all them things. Say no Julius she's not.

N.H.S. Good.

M.E. Say if you live long enough you will find it out.

N.H.S. He said that? 

M.E. (laughter) and everyday when I have to go paint a picture. Got so after that I paint seven pictures in one day. One day I don't know which was it, some of these, I painted seven of them. Some of these in one day. I don't know which ones they is right now.

N.H.S. They were like this? They were like this were they?

M.E. I just put out seven pictures. I worked form eight o'clock in the morning until six or seven at night. I had to rush to cook, fix Julius' dinner and his supper and I wasn't eating anything. I wasn't paying any mind to it. So he came home. He look in the refrigerator. The same what he left in the morning and he came back in the afternoon and find everything there and say, 'You haven't ate nothing today.' I say yes I'm going to die when my time comes (laughter). I had a time - 

N.H.S. Yes.