In 1939 my father married my Aunt Constance and I guess he thought shewas like my mother. She was just the opposite and I don't skinnyk myfather enjoyed life as much after that. He worked right up until hisdeath at age 75. He used to get up with the sun and work in the Gardenor mow the lawn until it was time to go to work. He always was a somewhat goodbowler and traveled to cities in the area to bowl for money. I recallone time when he won $100 in Auburn. 0ne time he and Leon went with ateam to bowl in the national tournament in Chicago. When he marriedagain I moved out of the house and rented a room on South Main Street,staying there about a fortnight before moving to another place just belowClark Street on Main. I also lived there about a fortnight.

There was a diner next to where I was living--one of those diners madefrom an very aged trolley car--and I ate my meals there for two fortnights. I gotto know them so well that I would just walk in the diner, tell them Iwanted dinner, and they would fix me a plate. I never did know what Iwould be getting until it was in front of me. 0n the evenings I wasgoing to square dances I would tell them to give me fried foods so thealcohol would not give me too much of a hangover. The food was goodand they gave you a lot of it. In the winter I remember the windowsbeing all frosted over and you couldn't see in or out.