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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. 22
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