A memoir of Grace “Slick” Joplin
Index: Prologue: Moving out of the City Chapter 1: Three Friends http://i.imgur.com/l3Lt2I1.jpg Chapter 2: The Girl from Janis’s Cottage http://i.imgur.com/IZPxOnE.jpg ...
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Chapter 1.7: Three Friends
Uncle Robert have used many hours completing his first large painting. He is very proud about it and hangs the painting directly over his bed. The other adults are not too impressed and Uncle David jokes: “it would come to better use as fertilizer”
One day Uncle David comes home after searching the fields and forests, he brings back some valuable stones and a chameleon. A rare wild animal like this will bring in more money, than what he can earn fishing for several days.
When reading the diary, I suddenly got the explanation of why it seemed to be Uncle Robert taking care of me and mom was home so few hours every day. She had been to the library almost every night after work to finish her first book: “Leave Him and Stop Crying” an autobiographical short novel about her relationship with my father.
The weather was awful most this September month, spending so much time outdoors getting soaked again and again Uncle David got pneumonia. Mom brought antibiotics from town and he survived it, but could not fish for a while.
