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poor people of New York, how his heart was with the poor, and so forth and so on. We learned a lot.

I cite these small items because they became the basis of my political education and my understanding of what you were dealing with when you dealt with the common, ordinary people of the USA.

We then took the train from Baltimore that night and we went to Danville, Virginia, which was our next stop. We took the night train and arrived at Danville, Virginia at seven A.M. We were going to go directly to Mr. Randolph Mead's house. Ireme primed me by saying, “Now, the Randolph Meads are very important. They don't look like anything. In fact, they look like something the cat brought in, but they're very important, and think they are. After all, his name is Randolph Mead.” She reminded me that they were very important, thought themselves very important and were very important in the Old South. What's more, she reminded me that Randolph Mead was kin to her and that was why we were invited to their house, in fact, why we had to go there, though it would be much easier if we could go to a hotel. We had to go there because he was some kind of a relation of hers - a cousin, I think. In the wanderings of her family, after they left Mirador - though they always





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