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I put my foot down and told mom the cat was to stay in Broadland. That was before I was convinced that Jeanette had taken over as boss.
I'm sure you remember the first time you drove the car alone. You probably remember that better than I do. It was the old '37 Chev. It was over by the coal sheds between the two elevators. I took Minnietta by the hand and we walked over to the house. I asked you to bring the car.
Then we went to Grand Island and looked at cars. This was 1948 and cars were still hard to get. Going to Grand Island I can still see the trains pass us by. I'd look in the rear view mirror and see a smoke in the distance. In a few minutes a train would catch up and pass us by. We were traveling about forty or forty five and I suppose the trains were going seventy or eighty. I loved those old dirty stinking steam engines. Just a few years
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