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Biographical diary of Eve Drewelow by Dr. Jan Carnes, 1978
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Family & Background (cont.) below. I'd draw and the teacher would come back and I'd hide it. I suppose it would have met with disapproval. At least I thought it would and why would I think it if it wouldn't have been that way? I was born in Iowa. Iowa is pretty rural. It was a nice place up in the northeastern corner. A little town New Hampden. We were a rural Family. My father was in real estate. We had a lot of thing we don't have now. We had sleigh rides, horses and buggies - that sort of thing. My mother didn't like it when I got married. Prof Cummings didn't like it either. He said "Now that'll be the end of it. When I was ill and at Mayo's a lot my mother said: "Eve is ill because she painted too much!" But Eve says "Eve was ill because she didn't paint enough.
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Family & Background (cont.) below. I'd draw and the teacher would come back and I'd hide it. I suppose it would have met with disapproval. At least I thought it would and why would I think it if it wouldn't have been that way? I was born in Iowa. Iowa is pretty rural. It was a nice place up in the northeastern corner. A little town New Hampden. We were a rural Family. My father was in real estate. We had a lot of thing we don't have now. We had sleigh rides, horses and buggies - that sort of thing. My mother didn't like it when I got married. Prof Cummings didn't like it either. He said "Now that'll be the end of it. When I was ill and at Mayo's a lot my mother said: "Eve is ill because she painted too much!" But Eve says "Eve was ill because she didn't paint enough.
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