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Oh, yes, well Albert broke me down on the money business completely, because I started out to say to him: “I don't want to hear anything about money from you or anybody else, and I have my money and you have your money, and I admit that it's not practical for you to come to live with me in my penthouse apartment because it isn't large enough for you and you shouldn't be limited by whatever it is I can afford. I'll go and live with you wherever you want to live, but I'll take care of all my expenses and you take care of your expenses, and you can buy the food.” I would let him buy the food.
So he thought this was absolutely fine and very cute, as a matter of fact. And I was perfectly sincere about it. And it was finally that somebody came and wanted to get some money from me for, I think, the Heart Association, and she came to this house and I said, “Well, you know, I don't have any money.” And she looked around and just couldn't believe her eyes, and she thought I was crazy; she had known my husband to be very much, thought him much richer than he actually was. And she went away, and I thought it was quite finny because I didn't have any money. So I told my stepson and my husband about it, and I thought they would think it was funny and instead my stepson was very put out about it, and he went to his father and said, “You see, now this is very bad. You shouldn't let Mary be without a large amount of cash. It's terrible for her not to have any money.” And Albert thought that since his son thought this was so serious that he should do something about it, and he wrote out a check for a million dollars, got me to come over, and he handed it to me. He said, “Edward
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