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Mamoo! ThaL'a light. That's true?.
Alice:	She	had the most delicious cold cream always. It was
called Creme de Fraise. The cream of strawberries and it was in a lovely little white jar with a French tag on the front of it.
Mamoo:	She had.	I don't really remember much about Bonnemama. I
remember wanting	to get to know her. I'd	go over there in the
afternoon and tell her hello and see her rocking in the rocking chair on the	back porch, but telling her	hello and that	was	IT.
She never did	talk to us.
Alice: She wasn't interested in us.
Mamoo:	She	was not interested in us at all.
They would never eat dinner together?
Mamoo: Not to	my knowledge.	They were invited out	to	dinner.	And
I remember a	story. Young	Albert Baldwin,	that	was	the	son	of
Grandpapa and Bonnemana, invited Bonnemama and Grandpapa up for dinner one day	and the story goes that	Bonnemama arrived at
Albert's house,	Albert and Helen's house	up on Prytania Street,
for dinner in her carriage, and Grandpapa came in his carriage you see, separately. And the story goes that during dinner, one of them wrote a little note; "Mr. Baldwin, would you like to have me drive you home tonight after dinner?"
Mrs. Baldwin wrote that to Mr. Baldwin?
Mamoo:	Bonnemama	would write the note to Grandpapa you see	and
she'd	call him Mr. Baldwin	you see and the little	note	went
around	the table	and finally	came back to Grandpapa and on	which
he wrote,:	"No, thank you very much, I have my own carriage." And
the story goes like that.
Alicei	Well it's	true. That's the way it was. They	were
completely and entirely separate.
Mamoo:	But they	were together at dinner, but they never	did
communicate at all you see.
Alice:	I've seen	them in the	hall, leading from the	dining room
that led from the	dining room	to the library and then	turn	right
to the front door, and Bonnemama was going to the library, Grandpapa was going to the front door and they'd pass eachother and Bonnemama would have her head in the air, and not speak to him at all.
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