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A letter from May 1986

Painting flower pots and another visit from Joey

3 min

Shoes like velvet, and now Agnes is painting every flower pot on the patio, hers and Mrs. Noha's. By evening she was in her nightgown again when Joey and his girlfriend turned up. They laughed and he kissed her. His mother had taken him grocery shopping in the pouring rain, and Agnes had to wear open-toed shoes that didn't work.

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What Agnes says

Words in light grey italics were hard to hear, so they may not be exact.

so my shoes are like on velvet oh just wonderful but now I got other things to do now I am painting the painting the stuff on a patio all of it all those flower pots and all that mine and Mrs.

Nohas and everybody's So I got done this morning, I haven't got no more paint. We used up the whole gallon, or not gallon, but a smaller thing. He bought it and a nice thing with a paint, with a brush, paintbrush, you know.

And I done it. So yesterday I was so tired that at 10, 15 or something, Oh, no, no, no.

Six o 'clock something, I was already in my nightgown. I'm ready to go to bed. And here comes Joey and the girlfriend. And I said, now, Joey, I said, you don't have to worry about my back bone, you know, that I haven't had the, it's covered.

But I'll be all right one of these days I'm going to make a get -out. thing to have it, so I have it all covered and stuff. So we laughed and he come and he kissed me. And he seems like pretty nice then.

I don't know, you know. His mother went to get groceries. So she took him to Paris. And from Paris, he phoned the girlfriend. Then the girlfriend come to Paris. and then they come walk over to my place. So you see how things are now.

So now, knowing that the mother or the father hasn't got a decent car, and I don't know if the mother let him have the car. Then two people, like I say, with the jaws, hurting and everything, but it was raining cats and dogs.

So that's why she told me, your mother, she told me I should have an open -toe thing and I'll be fine. But just it didn't work. Just one morning I went down the basement to eat and I couldn't wear it.

So that evening we washed the bottom of the thing. And like I say, and then the manager took me to get the good shoes. So I've got the good shoes now. So now, Joanne don't know that Johnny gave me the money.

So I wouldn't tell her.