bed a son wanted. Having grown up during the Depression, my first husband always had had e parting with his (not “our”) money. After twenty- appy years (according to my husband’s repeated ) the busy surgeon and his old love, who became his d wife, would forget to pay regular maintenance rt, or his sons’ expenses, or tuition. Payments were d, so no transcripts could be forwarded to another when a son was considering a move. Money was in supply for me, especially when lawyers (who were to charity) wanted to be paid for their efforts to the maintenance that was in arrears from “the most macious man” they had ever encountered. It was mely hurtful to have more than twenty-five years of ed constant love and caring for five males negated he first wife gets the thorns and the second wife, the roses. In the 1980s, Operation Greylord, an FBI investigation into the corruption of the Chicago courts, be filling the newspapers, and eventually dozens of lawyers, policemen, and court officials were ed, convicted, and jailed, and 15 judges were jailed and disbarred. Twice my captious husband cceeded in bribing my lawyers. I had fired the first set of lawyers after I discovered that they had rately misinformed me about my rights. The second set of lawyers were also bought off for Frank Lloyd Wright felt that living in good architecture influenced its inhabitants. He believed dmirable qualities would come to the fore, among them integrity as symbolized in the red square e applied to some of his drawings and even on some buildings. My four boys grew into helpful, kind young men, learned to stand on their own two feet, and to their keep.” They had not ever begged for money nor for gifts larger than a bicycle seat. When were teenagers, they might take a loan from mother and then work it off. Father was harder to
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