Evenings with Auntie

(1960 June)

It was so wearing to answer the same questions every day and so hard to play any mental game as she [Auntie Mabel] could not remember the rules. I told her to play on the ends of the dominoes and she would try to play on the middle of the line. O dear. - Then she would doze off watching TV and wake up not knowing where she was. One night she thot she was home and had a terrible struggle with our window, opening in, because it didn't go up like hers at home, and she thot she was home. I was alone watching TV at night with her and was so frightened. Once she dozed off and woke up and said, "Who was that woman who walked out of here?" L said, "Why that was Mary Margaret." She was content and said, "O." All this is very wearing, I guess, because we become extremely nervous.