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yesterday that was how old I was going to live to be. I've loved every doctor that has ever treated me, also every teacher I've ever had and each preacher from my youth up. In fact, I love everybody. But I started to say if I lived that long I'd never forget some of the good old times as well as the sad and bad times.
Then Volney went to C.C. camps in Mendenhal, Mississippi. It was during the depression, hard times. We had six children then and Ruby Pearl was the baby only a little thing, they had taken me to the Osners Clinic. Well not exactly. I stayed with Willies brother and wife, they had two children, Verna May and Ray. He and his father are both gone now but his mother and sister are living and they don't live but a few miles from us. Diamond Head, a very pretty place hilly country. Hasn't been inhabited but a few years but is growing in number fast. So as I had said I was staying with Gladys and Scott and she was taking me to Osners twice a week and instead of getting better it was gradually getting worse. Every A.M. when Gladys would take me to the clinic when I'd go to get up on the streetcar I'd almost faint and fall in the street. She'd have to give me a dose of ammonia which she had fixed before leaving the house and I'd make it there and back with pure determination, but would have to go to bed for awhile from exhaustion. So I stayed in N. O. two weeks when Willie came in one day and said get your things together I'm taking you home to your doctor, Dr. Noah Fountain a wonderful man and a good doctor. So when we got home he took me to my doctor in Picayune and the minute he looked at me he said Mrs. Hover there's not a thing wrong with you except your teeth, they have got your whole system poisoned and the sooner you have them out the quicker you'll get well and he said your tonsils need to come out too and said if you want me too I can burn them out with nitre of silver in just two minutes. So I asked him if it would hurt too bad and he said no; which it never, it just stung for a few minutes. He showed them to Willie and I and they were rotten, even smelled. So I started going to the Dentist in Picayune and he'd only pull one or two at a time because he said you are in to weak a condition to have over two pulled at time. I see I'm going to have to stop and rest a while as I'm making too many mistakes.
Well, here I am back in the saddle again. After I'd been in New Orleans only three days, here come one of the pitiful letters you've ever read from my husband. This is the
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