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started dating me, she'd do everything in her power to break us up, would tell him all kinds of lies on me, such as I had told her I didn't even like him that I was just using him for a good thing to get him to take me places, as he had a wonderful little traveling pony and buggy. He'd come right on and tell me everything she said. She lived at Gainesville, that was about three miles above my home, so she'd go down to his sisters and spend a week as her father was related to Willies sisters (Idiemia's), husband. I made a mistake when I said father, it was her mother. Anyway, she'd write notes to him and send by Idiemia's children as they only lived a half a mile from each other. She'd ask him to come and take her home so he did that a few times but then the last time she asked him to take her home, he sent word that he didn't have time, he had a date with the girl he loved. So I suppose she realized that was plain enough to let her know he didn't care for her. So there was an old bachelor who lived real close to them so the very next week she and him (Fritz Peterman) ran away and got married. Had never been known to go together or had any courtship what so ever before so everyone decided it was done for spite. She lived with him and had everything her heart desired and had two fine looking boys, but still she wasn't happy because while her two sons were real small she left him. Then years later after her boys were grown, she married again but now has gone on. Idiemia and I went to see her and her first baby and she just hugged me for ever so long and cried on my shoulder. It made me feel so sorry for her and when we went to leave she went to the door with us and saw the pony and she called the pony by name and said Girlie, you've given me pleasure many times. Even yet my heart goes out to her, because I know she really loved him.
One night Willie and I had gone to a supper they were having to get money up for the church, at the Woodman of the World Lodge in Napoleon and Amelia was there. That was before any of us were married so when Willie told Amelia and myself to come let's have supper, she looked around and told the ones who brought her to come with us so they did and Willie treated the bunch of us. They had all kinds of food, also cakes by the wholesale, but I said all I wanted was a dish of chicken gumbo, so they all chimed in, requesting the same thing. Gumbo then cost forty cents a dish. I don't know now what a big soup plate full like that with two pieces of chicken would cost in a restaurant. He wanted to buy us cake to go with our lemonade, but I had been taught that if a
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