It may have been a national holiday, but you would never know it from Mrs. Culp’s diary. “Stayed home all day, very hot, washed and straightened up, etc.,” she wrote. Walter’s stomach was bothering him again and he had taken a C.R.C. pill. Mrs. Culp brought him dinner from the dining room but he didn’t feel like eating. In the evening, she sat outside t…
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