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come from the same town that my mother's people come from, and my mother's name was Johnson, so we may have mutual ancestors a couple of hundred years back. There's some relationship of a Protestant and Irish feeling of people who don't think that you have to suffer forever, you know, that he has and that I have, that it isn't necessary to suffer forever--or maybe his mother was like that. I think he thinks of me as being like the female side of his family, something like that. Actually I doubt that he recalls this business. He often talks to me other people about me, I know, but I think it's not because of the details that I will tell you about; I think he feels that I'm public spirited but that I'm also sympathetic to tough causes.
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