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Aunt Naomi... made hats and then
they wore hats... with all kinds of decorations on them -- plumes and every
thing else you know. She made hats that's how she made her money and dresses...
so she made enough money to take a trip and so she went to Washington D. C. --
by herself. And she went to the White House -- sight-seeing, you know, and on
the outside of the White House, someone had written their name and address. So
she took it down and wrote him a letter when she got back home. His name was
Muller (Müller?). And they corresponded for awhile, and then he proposed
to her through the mail and invited her to come back to... to Washington, to
marry him. And so, as the story goes, she always put her hair up in rollers
every night and so she was... in this sleeper -- on a train -- she had her hair
up in rollers. So when the train pulled into Washington, all those that were
asleep kept asleep, `cause the train wasn't going anywhere else that night. So
he went to meet the train, and she didn't get off, and so he asked then, if she
was on the train... and if it was likely that she was still asleep. So he went
in there and there she was still asleep with these rollers in her hair. And as
the stories goes, he told her that he almost turned around and left, she looked
so horrible -- a freak, you know. And of course, they had not seen each other
until this time. They only had pictures and had written each other. But she
married him... they bought a home... they went to Minneapolis, Minnesota and
that's were they lived -- so when the war broke out -- World War I broke out...
I guess he was taken into the war and then he disappeared... so Mr. Müller
left my aunt... the war started and he left... and she didn't know what
happened... she never did know... And she just guessed that he went back on the
German side instead of fighting on the American side... because he was German.
And so... their name was Müller, not Miller... (Bob [her son] changed his
name to Miller [later] in my era...) but he was never heard from again and so
here she was in Minneapolis, Minnesota -- she never came back to Arkansas!
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