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wanted theirs shown intact, the Pre Columbian objects to be shown with the modern. There was no museum with enough space, so the Philadelphia Museum with a spare wing, got everything. 

As years passed, my friendship with Walter and Lou become a family tie. We rarely discuss art, instead I entertained them with stories of my life and flirtations. When I lost my home in a flood, tenderly they sheltered me for five days. Whenever I was ill, Lou was warmly concerned, sometimes driving me to doctors. But never did I hear her refer to her ill health. I did not know she had cancer until Walter phoned she was in the hospital. 

He went to pieces after her death and survived her two months. Though I wanted to be near him, he would not let me come, saying he was in no physical condition to see anyone. We phoned daily. At that time I was getting ready for a pottery exhibition at the De Young Museum. Walter finally agreed to let me spend a night after the exhibition opened. WE agreed upon a Thursday. but the next morning distraught he phoned, said he was ill, to postpone the visit. He died on Wednesday night, the day before I was to visit him. A servant found his fallen over the bathtub. 

Lou had sustained him in choice of pictures, encouraged his Bacon-Shakespeare research, he could not live without her. For weeks, bereft, I could not get used to their passing 

In 1963 Marc el came with Teeny, his wife, to Pasadenan for the opening of his exhibition at the Museum there. She was beautiful in an emerald green dress,[[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] and I was happy that the last years of his life were with companionship and comfort. 

I had just returned from my first trip to India and Marcel was eager to hear about the journey. The State Department had sent me with an exhibition of my pottery to India's cities. I was at his and Teeny's table at the party given in his honor, later at the recption [[reception]] he watche [[watched]] me dance the twist, amused and delighted at my energy. A few days later he and