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this moment I can't say.

He was a great bridge player. He wasn't a professional, but he was an excellent player. He played in the New York Whist Club with the high score groups. He was a first-class whist and bridge player. He played with people who played extremely well and put their minds on it.

The cycle of my husband's illness was terribly irregular. From 1918 on there were never anything but very short periods of reasonably comfortable accommodations to life. It was always something. But, of course, there are degrees in that. Sometimes he was hospitalized, sometimes not. Sometimes he would go off on a little trip. Sometimes he would have an attendant that was called a secretary. There was great variety in the whole process.

This all influenced my life to the extent that it placed upon me from 1918 on responsibility for economic and financial aid to the family. I never otherwise would have assumed those responsibilities. I would have undoubtedly declined to do certain things, or said I couldn't do certain things, just because it wasn't convenient to do them, if it hadn't been that I had a heavy load of financial and economic responsibility from that time on. I gradually realized that I couldn't evade it. While I could always hope that everything would be all right sometime, with every year that passed I realized that





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