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"In this photo, Circa, 1934, you
see the women of the St. James

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Lutheran Women's Auxiliary.

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It is easy to see
they are German--

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short, squat, with big noses.

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The sadness of the Dakotas
in their sullen mouths.

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These are exceptions--

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Mrs. Kyte, English,
who hated me.

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I hated her and her husband.

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Mrs. Noraine, Russian, kind.

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She saved me once from
a certain whipping.

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Mrs. Hillborn, Swedish, I think.

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Cheerful.

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Her husband was a cop.

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None of them seem young.

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Perhaps the way the
picture was taken.

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Looking back, I never recall
a young face, a pretty one.

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My eyes were like this photo--

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old.

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This one is grandmother this
my Aunt Sarah, still living.

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That one, I forget her name.

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The one with maladjusted sons.

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That gray in the picture
was actually their faces.

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On gray days, we
reflected whether color.

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Lutherans did that.

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It made us children of God.

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That one sang so loud
and bad, I blushed.

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She believed.

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She believed the words.

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She turned me forever off
hymns, even the good ones,

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the ones they founded jazz on.

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Many of them have gone
the way wind recommends.

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Or if you're religious, God.

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Mrs. Noraine, thank
the wind, is alive.

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The church is brick
now, not the drab board

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frame you see in the background.

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Once I was alone in
there, and the bells,

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the bells started to ring.

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They terrified me home.

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This next one in the album
is our annual picnic.

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We are all having fun."

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[LAUGHTER]

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Well--

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.

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I don't know if you caught
the irony, the subtle irony.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Actually, we weren't
having very much fun.

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Those weren't fun
people back there.

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