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in D Minor, and then I discussed Berlioz,
Chausson, and Debussy. I
love their kind of music along with Wagnerian and, of course, who doesn't
love Verdi and Rossini and Puccini. So I'm very, very emotionally involved
with opera.
Yes I noticed the music on the piano so I guessed as much.
A: Those are remnants of better days, when Kay used to play the piano. It is very
hard for me to change anything that Kay left around here. It all happened so
suddenly, and I expected her to be back after the operation. I don't play the
piano. Both daughters took piano lessons, and they could play reasonably well,
but they gave it up and went on into other instruments. My musical interests
revolve around symphony concerts and opera.
Getting back to your theme of regrets about things you might have done, I
can't help wondering if there were anything that I could have done that would
have kept Kay from getting to the stage she is in. Could we have sought help
elsewhere, Johns Hopkins or the Mayo Clinic? We did go out to the National
Institute of Health, but Kay's condition didn't fit any of their research
parameters.
Sometimes I wonder if I should have left the government to seek greater
remuneration in the private sector. In 1939 it was the way to go, but then
during World War for example, the government salaries were kept way
below everybody else's salary. But at that time if you had
they said
it would be accepted with prejudice. I don't know what that meant, and it
probably wouldn't have meant anything if they needed you back. When the
government salaries finally started to come up in the
it was long overdue.
One reason Kay and I didn't have children until we were married 10 years was
that we couldn't afford to. I was a P-3 when we got married which is the
equivalent of about a GS-9, I guess. Kay was working at the library and we
could barely make it in Seattle. When we came to Washington it was even
worse, and I had gone up a grade. And so that was one reason we were married
10 years before Mary Jane was born. I was old fashioned, I guess, because I
couldn't conceive of a family with children where the mother worked outside
the home. So it took a long time before we were able to afford to have
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