Title: Intro Content: Patient: My father was never talking to so I really never knew knew him as a person and my mother she would talk. But then it kind of seemed to sink into me like and she didn't do a good enough job. Debbie: Who are you closer to your mother or your father's. Patient: Closer to your mother or father ? Debbie: Which one were you closer to? Patient: I think I was closer to my mother. Debbie: Yeah that then we haven't. Patient: Yeah were you close your parents? Debbie: I was closer to my mother. Patient: You were. Debbie: You know who my mother was. You! Patient: I was your mother? You mean you mother liked me; and decided I should be something. Debbie: You are my mother. Patient: I can never be your mother. Either something went wrong. Well, we did something peculiar okay. -- Title: I Knew You Content: Patient: But of course I would always know you because I'd known you since you were little. Debbie: You knew me when I was born. Patient: Were you really? Because I was to cross the street, or something. Where were you born? What street? Debbie: 169th Street in Flushing. Patient: Oh well that's where all of us lived. Right. 169th street. Yeah, so I know that I knew you. I knew Frances. I knew ... wait a minute ... - Title: The first time she asked Content: Patient: I don't think I know many peopole left from when we start with it. Debbie: Well you started in San Francisco. Patient: Year I guess I did. Debbie: You went to New York for a long time. Patient: But was I, was I with somebody in New York? Debbie: You live with Danish for almost 50 years. Patient: You meant working with Danish or what? Debbie: Yeah, you worked with him and lived with him. Patient: I didn't realize that. --- Title: Things have not been easy Content: Patient: Things have not been easy for him like. Debbie: How's that? Patient: I'm not sure he's healthy or not. And no. I think it tells and it could not. Like it could be a short life. Debbie: Well you know Danish died about five years ago. Patient: Yeah and nobody told us Debbie: Well then it no we knew you were there when it happens. Patient: Oh and he was he's been gone a good since so yeah young. Yes, I realized it and it was in a muddled stage for each of us. You know each had a relationship with Danish and then it was gone and he was a different person. But we knew he died and it just never came back again. It couldn't. So, it wasn't easy; and you don't just change people. They're gone. -- Title: I am a disgrace Content: Patient: I don't know why we don't get together more often but we don't seem to. Debbie: Well we got together last night. Patient: Oh heavens, what I do last night? Debbie: Last night, we all had dinner together. Patient: Yeah oh I'm a disgrace Oh that'd be awful if we all failed - do they give grades now in school in college. Debbie: Well we're not in college so we don't have to worry about it. Patient: Oh we don't do anything then anymore; you don't get college grades. Debbie: No, we don't have to do that anymore. Patient: Oh what you do? Do - just passing or what? Debbie: Well we're not in college so we don't have to worry about any grades. -.- Title: How old were we Content: Patient: How old were we when we sort of got into like not like that at the medium-size age. Debbie: Well I'm in medium sized age because I'm 45 Patient: Yeah and I must be near 50. Debbie: Older than that. Patient: is it really 50 something then. 60? Debbie: Do you know how old uou are? 84. Patient: I'm 84. I never thought of that Debbie I haven't thought of my age in years.