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5 September 2005
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Heather: Mother, I found out more information about Audrey Green, your great, great, great, great, great, great,great (7 times) grandmother that you were named after. Audrey Greene descends from John Green and Joan Tattersall. A woman in my local California Chapter of the DAR also descends from that couple and she was telling me about this New England couple in the 1600s.

(Phone Conversation on Labor Day when staff member answered Mother’s phone so Mother could talk with me on the speaker phone–Rhode Island Adaptive Telephone Equipment Loan Program managed by Goodwill Industries of R.I.)

“I can’t understand…You got to come over here and show it to me…”

(Heather: Oh, I know it is confusing, but I am so happy that we can find this information about our ancestors. I’m reading 1776 by David McCullough and the author says that the Green house where General Nathaneal Green was born is still in the Green family in Warwick, R.I.  Let’s plan to ride by there when I come to R.I.)

“Oh, that sounds great…You got to come here and put me in the right place…It’s so bad…I’m awfully sad…I wish I were closer to you…”

(Heather:  I’ll continue to try to get to see you once a month. I am able to get the time off work because of the government program, Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).  I wish I were old enough so that I could leave my work at the state and still keep my health insurance, but anyway, I am happy to get the time off to see you monthly.)

(Exact date and time in September not recorded, but on a phone conversation with Mother):

“I want you to be with me alone with you in this thing.  I want Douglas to come.”

28 September 2005
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(Wednesday Heather visiting with Mother at Kent Regency)

“I must make more poems and they must be beautiful.”

(Heather: Yes, Mother.  I have compiled all your poetry into a booklet and I love to read your work.)

“Every time you say that I look at your teeth.  They are good teeth.”

(Heather: Yes, Mother.  I’ve glad I had braces when I was younger.)

“The room stays the same; it never changes.”

(Heather: Do you like your room?)

“Yes.  The bed is soft and comfortable.  You showed me your teeth.”

(Heather:  Thank you, Mother.  I like my teeth also.  Do you want me to send out the Date books to your relatives and friends again this Christmas?)

“Yes, they all seem to love it.  It is such a nice thing to do.  Send me one too. I’ve got everything.”

“I wonder how much you know of that paper” (Audrey referring to her Memoir’s booklet Glimpses of the Past: Morning Conversation with Audrey placed on the tray table.)

“Is that what I say?  I try to leave, so you remember. Remember me.”

28 September 2005
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Heather: Yes, Mother, your children will always remember you. I am continuing to write down our conversations and compiling them in your memoirs booklet. I named the work Glimpses of the Past: Morning Conversation with Audrey because when we began the conversations it was on Wednesday mornings when you were living at Crystal’s house and then on Saturday mornings when you were at Alpine. What do you most want me to remember?

“Remember?  I’m thinking of Honey.  I wish she were here.”

(Honey was a white poodle that Audrey watched for her son, Vaughn and daughter-in-law Patricia.  However, Audrey got attached to Honey and could not part with the dog when they came to pick her up.  We are all grateful to Pat for letting Mother adopt Honey.  Honey added many happy years to Audrey and Milton’s life.)

(Heather:  A penny for your thoughts?)

“I wonder how many pennies are hiding in the dark.”

(Again this is evidence of Audrey’s aphasia, “a language disorder having difficulty remembering words to being completely unable to speak…”.)