A letter from May 1986
Hello from Agnes: Decoration Day weekend and Mary's graduation
Agnes opens the tape by checking that the recorder works, then starts catching someone up on family news. A visitor stopped by, Decoration Day is coming on Monday, and Mary has graduated, walking up for her diploma barefoot because her high heels hurt. Rose came by with her little ones for the first time in many months.
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That is the end of this story.
What Agnes says
Words in light grey italics were hard to hear, so they may not be exact.
Chris, I hope you can hear me. I don't know much about, but I will tell me a few things that I got on my mind. So, what do you call it, do you want to come and give me some candy and stuff?
I don't know, maybe I told you that already, but anyhow, it was from Mary, Mary Berry. you know from from Ohio and so she talked a little while and she went about her business well now it's a decoration day you know that by now it's Monday Monday and so I talked to her she but Johnny wasn't home and so she told me that Johnny is coming with the car and to take me to the decoration date.
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Now what am I going to do? Stop.
Well, I got, I had to quit because she brought me some pills and stuff. Only nine of them every day, six times a day. So, well, anyhow, I'm getting out all right. So now, Rosie was over the other day.
Oh, wait, no, I'm over stepping. So then, yeah, Mary had her thing to get this thing over with, they get her schooling done, and she passed with flying colors, all right. But the thing is, she had to go and get her diploma their feet.
She had a high step and shoes, high step and shoes, but she couldn't walk him. So she took them off and she went to the barefoot down there to get her diploma. She got it real nice, the diploma was fine.
Well, I didn't go there. There was 260, I think, of guys getting diplomas that day. And it started 8 o 'clock, and at 6 .30 I was in bed, you know. So I couldn't go. The father and the mother went, and who else went?
I don't know from the family, but they went. And so she come yesterday, I wonder if you hear me. She come yesterday, and it's the first time she come in many, many months. Well, she had this schooling business, you know, and that.
So the smallest child come over with her, with Rosie and her two kids, and she was the biggest, nicest girl out. Oh, she was just big girl, you know.