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I said a lot about all the wives in "Little Sparrows Fall". I can't imagine what Lila's life must have been like. I know from the few letters that I received later in life from her sister Orpha that she visited her often and she lived in Toronto, worked at Eaton's, and sang in the very prestigious Bell choir, loved to dance. When she married my Dad he had one more year of studying before graduation and then internship. She and Dad moved into the apartment that Wilford and Clifford had shared. She continued to work at Eaton's under her maiden name. Being married meant she would be fired. So at least they had that year before his internship when he had to spend so much time that year at the hospital. The year after that she nursed him for a long and difficult year while they lived with his Dad and Mom in Fairground. Watson Park, Dad's father, worshiped the ground she walked on. He spent an afternoon telling me about her at the time of Catherine's funeral in Ontario. The year after he bought the practice in Brownsville she miscarried their first child (Orpha's letters). Then I came along in 1931. Maybe Douglas has stories to tell. One can only imagine. The gene's live on, resurface and maybe look familiar but that's all we have. It's never enough...Love Betty.
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