(1968 March 20)
[After a day when Lorin bought a new car, let Polly get some new furniture, and was approached for loans to both his children, he] retired early to bed, complaining of dizziness. "I never thought I'd live to see the time I'd spend $10,000 all in one day," he murmured somewhat weakly - (yet not keeping the grin entirely off). P. S. Actually, I'm happy about the new car. Daddy works so hard, I'm glad he can have something for himself sometime. You know?
Polly Kay (1904-1997) vividly and with humor describes her life in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in excerpts from letters to her son Skip written after 1949, including her 5 last years in an old folks' home.
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- A lifelong Wisconsinite, Carolyn Parsons (1904-1997)got a B.A. in English at Ripon College, taught high school, and in 1930 married Lorin L. Kay, a lawyer first in Milwaukee and from 1938 on in Richland Center (he died in 1970). Their children: Mary Margaret and Richard/Skip, editor of this blog.
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