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BOB: What are the other things you imagined an artist to be?

B: Well, I think I heard about free love.  I don't know what it was, but just as I said to my mother, I didn't believe in marriage, I also remember as a little girl thinking well, one should have three loves in life.  When one is in one's teens, when one is thirty to thirty-five, and then when one is older because tastes changes so.

D: Did you want to be an artist for the art, or for the intrigue of the artist's life?

B: I don't know.  What I wanted mostly was to get away from home, and at any price.  And I paid the price because when I did get away from home I had one hell of a difficult life.  Thank God I did because I...it's given me a lot of understanding of what it's like to be without money, and of what it's like to be near a person who isn't very nice.

D: When you actually adopted this artists life [[strikethrough]] do you think it [[/strikethrough]] was it different than what you had imagined when you were dreaming about being a Bohemian?

B: Well, I didn't think of myself as an artist.  I do art.  I guess you could call me an artist but that's not the way I think of myself.  I think of myself more or less as being