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In the following I need to explain that I called my brother Ronnie “Dee Dee” from earliest memory. We called our grandmother “Tody” though I never really understood why? And while Ronnie and I had lived in some large cities like San Francisco, Cleveland, and others Bakersfield remained our hometown to us. During our trips from Little Oklahoma, Southeast Bakersfield, to downtown Ronnie and I would see a few Zoot-suiters and scantily clad women wearing lots of makeup, strange hairdos and hair colors, and Tody would make disparaging and warning remarks about them. A few of the women would elicit the phrase Painted Hussy from Tody, a phrase with which Ronnie and I had become well acquainted from earliest memory. I recall the time shortly after we had moved from Weedpatch to our grandparent’s place and grandad and Tody had taken us to the American Legion Hall for a special Christmas Eve event. The program was very well attended and the auditorium was...
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