A letter from May 1986
Goodbye for now: Mr. Lark, flowers, and Mary's job hunt
Agnes tells how Mr. Lark, now in the home, can no longer talk, while his wife visits and cries. She says goodbye, hoping the listener's trip went well, and asks whether he stopped at Frank's on his way to the airplane. Mary may look for work in Minneapolis or St. Paul. She says she may add a few more words after dinner. The tape then goes quiet at about 47:21.
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What Agnes says
Words in light grey italics were hard to hear, so they may not be exact.
He can't talk or nothing no more. He just sits and he listens to her. Then she starts crying and she goes out. She goes and visits with a lady that has got something, some kind of a kid going to place to go, going some kind of a service or something.
every other day. So she goes with this lady, and she goes and visits him, and then she brought me eight or nine nice flowers that are all, they were all filled with, with, already in the water, you know, they start growing.
So I fixed them yesterday, and it was kind of a frosting, and well, they frosted a little, but not much, just enough to make it miserable. Well, I'll leave this going after a while. I'll say a few words and say bye -bye for you.
I hope that you're turning up all right with your stuff. And, you know, did you stop at Franks? you went, when you went to the, to the airplane, you know, maybe you did, I don't know.
Oh, and Mary, she, she wants to go and find out about that job. She might get up in Minneapolis or St. Paul or someplace. So she's going to Franks up there, and he's going to see he can find something for her.
Well, it's kind of hard. She knows everything, and she went through it nice, and I think. And I don't know how he must be still working, you know. And the kids are just wonderful. They're nice. So now they'll have vacation.
So I don't know how things will go. Well, I'll see you. After a while, I'll say a few words yet. Oh, I think it's stopped. Oh, no, I didn't. Well, I'll see a little while after dinner, I think.