A letter from May 1986
Joey and his girlfriend drop by; Agnes paints her flower pots
Agnes tells how Joey and his girlfriend stopped in when she was already in her nightgown after a whole day of painting. The manager gave her the paint and brushes. Joey has finally left the house where he was staying and come home, and he is helping his father and finishing school.
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What Agnes says
Words in light grey italics were hard to hear, so they may not be exact.
So, well, now I've got to tell you more. Joey and his girlfriend come over. I had a gown already ready to go to bed. I was painting the things for my flowers, you know. He gave me the paint and the brush and everything, the manager.
He is a good guy. I'm telling you, he does all kinds of nice. things for me. So he gave me the paint and that's nothing. And I, yesterday, I painted all day.
And so I was tired. About 6 .30, I was in bed with my gown, you know, ready to go lay down. And here they come, Joey and the girlfriend. So we had a real nice visit. And Joey is home.
he finally got away from that lady that had him milked house and do other things after she goes in the morning and takes him to the high school and he's got the lunch there and then for the evening she comes with the car and brings him back wherever he was so he hated it so much that he begged the old man and then to let him come home and of course naturally the mama she went and put her two cents in and so he come home so he told me yesterday that he come home and he's trying to help his father once in a while
something and he still goes to school I guess it's a matter of a few days now and the school will be out. And so, a mother took him to Rice Lake to buy some groceries and stuff. And so he went to Paddy's and he phoned the girlfriend and she come over and then they come over here.
So fine. Well, it looks like he is getting much better. So I don't know about that. drugs, but we didn't say nothing about it. He says, you found out that I am home, and I says, yeah, your mother told me, you see.
Oh, and the mother come, oh, the mother come and some of her, oh, Jesus, I got so many things to say, she come in the rain with the two neighbors, neighbors, they are not really neighbors. You know where Napsir used to live, huh, the big house?
Well, the lady that was in it, she moved out somewhere else close to the place where she works where they had that, where I had my, you know, where I had my thing.