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LEAVING HOME
Some one has said that one generation stands on the shoulders of the preceding generation. If this were not true, my friends and I would have had to invent the wheel again. I take for granted my comfortable life, it is very different from that of the cave dweller. The people living now are the ones that influence my life, and help cut the patterns from which I weave my tapestry.
The influence of my parents on my life is hard for me to evaluate. How is it that they were my parents, that I would be born into a caring family with concern that society would accept me? By the time I reached maturity, I had adopted the customs and manners of the society in which I live.
The people that I met by chance, or was it by design, after I left the protection of my family, is the story I want to tell. After leaving High School I went into partnership with my father on the ranch at Crawford, Nebraska. The word partnership, hardly describes the arrangement, Dad had run the ranch for as long as I had lived, and he continued to make most of the decisions, I merely followed.
Many people have touched my life and have influenced my thoughts and actions. There is, however, one person that has been my life since I met her in September, 1925. She was one of the new High School teachers who came to Crawford, and has been my room mate and traveling companion for 66 years.
Verna Pielsick came to Crawford to teach English and commercial studies. We met at a party that was held to introduce the new teachers to the other young people in the community, one of the games played was to tie a marsh-mallow in the middle of a string about four feet long, with a contestant at each end, chewing the string until they reached the marsh-mallow Verna and I reach the marsh-mallow at the same time.
We dated most of 1925 and 1926. I, an awkward country bumpkin, she a college graduate, interested in music; art, and the coach of the drama team. I could not convince myself that she could be interested in me. I knew that there were others interested in her also, but on October 9, 1926, she agreed to marry me. We would not be able to marry at that time if she were to continue teaching. Married women were not allowed to teach, as she just might take a job from a man who was supporting a family.
In Sept. of 1927 Verna returned to Crawford to begin her third year of teaching. We had our first date and it
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