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Mother." Then I said, "I feel fairly certain that I can sell my weaving. Anyway, I'm going to try that first."

We remained friendly. From time to time, we had dinner together. He would ask about my work and several times he asked if he could give me any financial support for the studio I had opened on Powell Street. I didn't need it. Once or twice, he asked me to come back to him but after a time he dropped the question. Some years passed before he obtained the divorce.

Long afterward, one of his relatives said to me, "We were all stunned when we heard the news that Leon had been married. Marriage was never for him." Although I had learned this myself, I took some comfort in hearing it from those who had known him all his life.

I have said that Leon was a loner. In the last years of his life, he was preparing to withdraw further from the world. He was taking instruction inCatholicism [[in Catholicism]] in