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one thing about cooking. So the way I learned was that the first time I had to cook a meal for him, the important thing is that he wasn't home. So I called up my mother, and she told me how to cook a full five course dinner over the phone. The phone must have been off the hook for about 3 1/2 or 4 hours, and I cooked this whole dinner over the phone. Everything she'd tell me I'd run back and do it and come back and stand at the phone. You know, I held that job for about a year. 
...No finally in the evening when I'd go home from work, Mother would brief me, then she'd write out things, so he never did know. I became a pretty good cook.
...He never learned. The only thing that he found out...he used to worry...because his phone bill was so enormous. Naturally it would be, everyday this was going on.
...But I finally...interesting enough that first year in art school, I also got another job which was at a Catholic high school, St. Elizabeth's Catholic High School, in which I taught one class to the senior students. It was a general high school kind of teaching. And so I held these two jobs, and here I spent this two years working one. 
...Well that was the same year I graduated from high school. I did the Scholastic Magazine Award. The national award. I won a couple of prizes in that, yes. 

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