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friend; we just stayed home stayed home and didn't do nothing but Jack got so mad
and acted up so, that my Daddy had to black his eyes and then he told him
to get out.

"He went and I was scared to death he wouldn't come back, but he
called me one day and we made up. This happened again and again, I
knew that he was stepping out on me, too, even if he did deny it.

"I thought he would do better if he only had a good job. The WPA
only paid him about $6 a week every other weck, and he only worked a
little so that didn't count much. I think it ruins a man, no matter how
good a family he comes from, to be down and out for so long. Seems like
all that's good in him just dies out.

"We couldn't get along and we separated several times in one year
and finally one day he just left saying that he was going to get a job
and he didn't come back.

"Six weeks after he left I started going with a boy that I'd known
a long time and who had lived near me for years. He wanted me to get a
divorce and marry him, but I didn't have the mony for a divorce. I was
only making $12 a week, although my speed had picked up a lot.

"My hours were 12 midnight to 8 o'clock in the morning and I would
allow myself only 15 [cent symbol] for supper at the factory cafeteria. It sure was
hard to do because the food was swell.

"I got so I didn't mind the tobacco odor at all, didn't even notice
it, but you cert'nly do get dusty. There's more dust there than any place
in the world. I've worn a dress with a belt and when I've taken the belt
off, the dust would fall out from under it.

"It's not a healthy place to work, because the dust gets into your

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