At 60, She Decides To Tell Her Life Story

graduated from high school in 1965 I grew up in Yuba City California in the in the middle of Central Valley and 100 and plus temperatures in the summertime with no air-conditioning my father was a mailman and I went on his route many a time he drove up into the into the motherlode country and my mom worked in the canneries all the time in the summer time and she babysat for a lot of other families so what I remember about growing up is I remember that my parents were never there because my mother was always at someone else's house and my father was always on the mail route and what I remembered is that my sister basically raised my brother because my mother was always at someone else's house raising someone else's children and so I was pretty much left on my own my sister took my brother and I pretty much from the time I was six on I just pretty much stayed at home I sort of stayed in the yard because I was told to and rode my bike and played with the neighbor kids you know that sort of thing but what I remember the most when I was about 7 and it was about 1st or 2nd grade probably I discovered the farm labor camp at the end of the street about oh maybe two and a half blocks three blocks down from my house was a farm labor camp and in those days everybody came mom and dad and Grandma and Grandpa aunts and uncles and so I would sneak down there while my parents were gone and just stand and watch because it was so fascinating to me that there were these huge families that everybody was there and the kids were playing and of course everybody was speaking Spanish and I didn't understand Spanish at the time but I just loved the atman and I just stood around I can remember just standing around nobody really even paid any attention to me and then gradually they started talking to me in Spanish and so that's how come I fell in love with a Spanish language because I fell in love with the Spanish immigrant families that came there and so I just that's what I remember most about growing up with those incredible families and had a park at the end of the street used to go to the park and just and I used to babysit the kids down the end of the street who were also spanish-speaking and so it was just something that I really really enjoyed my parents really didn't know any of this they were gone all the time and really this didn't appreciate other cultures and the diversity in the world we had Indian people on our blog we had black people we had Hispanic people and my parents just all sort of just pretended they weren't there and so when they found out that I was down at the farm labor camp they were upset with me but I still continued to go when I entered high school I decided that I was going to take Spanish because I love the language I loved everything about it and I was madly in love with my high school Spanish teacher who was red-headed and from Madrid so he did not speak Mexican Spanish he spoke Spanish from costigan from from from the middle of Spain he's born in Madrid so anyway he just I just really thought he was amazing and he sort of arranged it so that a good friend of mine that I've had since fourth grade who was also in Spanish could go to Mexico so when I was 16 we traveled on a bus all the way from Yuba City California to El Paso Texas I'll never forget how hot it was and then we went down straight down from El Paso Texas we went into the state of Chihuahua and we stayed in the town called torreón it was just me and my friend Lou Anna who's also a Spanish teacher and two other girls from Omaha Nebraska and the four of us stayed in this house for three months I was I was working in the peach cannery by that time and I was at 14 I started picking prunes up off the ground and you know I was in Yuba City so you worked in the cannery she worked in the fields you know I could make more money in the fields and I could make anywhere else doing anything else so that's what I did and but that particular summer when I decided to go my parents were very adamant that I shouldn't be going that it was a waste of time and but I went and I was gone for all three months and I fell madly in love again with the culture Chihuahuas not a not a very you know it's a big state but it's broad and wide and Torian was not a very big town and I lived with an incredible family that were just opened their homes and their hearts up to us and had a Mexican boyfriend that'll increase your Spanish real quick his name was cha cha it's all anybody called I was 16 and he was 22 so that was quite that was quite an experience to say the least and I was chubby I've always been chubby I was never I was always the chubby girl in high school and so I was hefty all my growing up time but he didn't seem to mind which was very sweet because I never had a boyfriend before I was 16 so that was very nice and I was there all three months and did not want to come home at all and so when I came back I was going to be a senior in high school and so I decided that no matter what I was going to college so once again my parents were not real supportive of that idea because they thought that that again was a waste of money they didn't value education that much they didn't have they've graduated from high school and they thought that was good enough and that should be good enough I always remember my mother saying to me just be a telephone operator like your sister because that's what my sister did she worked for you know the telephone company and that's what she did and she was married and you know starting her family and all that those things and she was very you know she had a very nice husband and and had a nice little house across the street from the high school where I attended and my mother used to say that to me you know just be a a telephone operator well I just really I had a dear friend the same one from fourth grade whose parents did encourage her their daughter to go to college and so they were my encouragement and I just again I did all the paperwork I did all the you know the financial aid of course it's so cheap them I mean it's nothing compared but it is to now you know and I just I went to school I went to Chico State which wasn't that far just fifty miles away and so you know I felt like I was you know and I got myself a you know a place to stay in the dorm and did all the things I needed to do and my freshman year at Chico State I lived in a home a home setting with about 20 other girls and it was really wonderful very close-knit group of people again with the same girl from fourth grade Louanna and she and I were roommates and we had a great time and just enjoyed Chico State immensely pioneer days and all that stuff but once again I I declared Spanish as my major and right away I found out that there was an international program and I said okay this is for me this is what I'm doing I'm going to Spain my junior year I don't care what happens so my freshman year I lived in this this dorm like setting which is more like a home and then my sophomore year I applied to be a Resident Assistant so I was an RA in the dorm in lassen Hall at California State University Chico that was really an eye-opener for me because I was younger than most of the girls on my floor and in those days we had hours I mean the kids all had to be in at 11 o'clock no men in the rooms no booze no no no and it was my job to make sure that none of those things took place and of course they all took place every one of them took place and I always remember that seven seven of my 41 girls got pregnant that year seven and it was like oh my gosh you know this was 1966-67 so that was really Anna and the thing that was most interesting to me was that every single one of those girls was affected differently by the same situation and it was so interesting to see how each one based on what was going on in their lives and who the guy was and who mom was and all that stuff everybody had different ideas of how to how to deal with that situation so it was it was a very very good life lesson for me you know one girl decided that she would have an abortion and so she she took care of that on her own I tried you know I tried to intervene as much as I could because I felt it was my place to do so and I you know told other people which they didn't want to have happen so I got myself in kind of sticky situations in a couple of things but I really felt that it was my place you know to kind of say something and three of the girls married three of the girls married in left school and I presume had the babies I don't really know what happened with those people or not but I'm presuming that they that they kept the children and then so that was four of them of the seven and then the other three just sort of disappeared I mean they left campus they were gone I don't know but none of them was none of them stayed on campus none of them stayed none of them stayed in school they all left all seven of them left and this was over the course of the year of course and I remember thinking back because when I was in high school when I was 15 my sophomore year in high school a girl got pregnant and the thing that was most interesting at that time was she married her boyfriend and she stayed in school and she had her baby which of course in those days was quite quite unknown really and but she would everybody watched her get pregnant everybody will not watch her getting there but I mean everybody watched her grow as she got more and more pregnant you know and she brought the baby to school that the following year and she finished up her senior year and so I thought well you know that's pretty pretty amazing and I think that experience of seeing that you know it just sort of depends on the person and the situation there's no you know there's no justice there's no saying this is a good thing or a bad thing that person has to make that choice and so you know just was it was just a very good life lesson for me and something that that because I was raised Catholic so I was raised by a very Catholic mother with very Catholic ideas about you know what's going to happen to you if you do this serve that or you know and so a very judgmental very judgmental lots of fear base you know lots of things that you know and so going through all of that really really opened my eyes up and I I really was able to see that you know there's just not one answer there just isn't to anything so I went off to Spain my junior year in college I left as soon as school was out I left in middle of June so that I could travel around I had a ul pass I basically what I the deal that I made with my parents was that since I was a resident system that year and I wasn't asking for any help with my housing because my housing was paid for and I basically had everything else paid for that would they give me a thousand dollars which was basically what my housing would have cost if to go to Spain and they agreed very reluctantly I won't remember we went to San Francisco State University and we stayed in the dorm room my mother and I the night before we left and I just bawled and carried on and was just how can you do this and it's it's halfway around the world and she was just beside herself you know she was just not happy about it at OU and I of course was just like a brat and I just said you know I really don't care I'm going I did this you know I was really pretty awful about it I really was but I took off and it was just I was there all year long I mean I was there I didn't come home until like five days before my senior year in college and I was went my entire junior year and I loved every absolute thing about it and I traveled and I hitchhiked and I you know I did everything you can think of doing this coming birthday will be 40 years since I went to Spain and you know like we I bye I get a URL pass and we'd take the train to a destination and then just write it back so we wouldn't have to pay for a hotel or a hostel or Pensione I mean we had incredible ways of getting around so we we could do it cheap and then of course we'd stay with each other you know you're living in Granada we'll all come to Granada and stay with you and you come to Madrid and stay with me and you know so we just we always we were very and of course in those days hitchhiking was okay I wouldn't encourage anybody to do that today probably I know kids do but you know and we I got myself in a couple of situations where it was a little you know if he and I you know I think about you know coulda shoulda woulda probably wouldn't do it today but you know I'm sure my kids have done the same thing well it's just you know like we had my dear friend Elliot and I ended up hitchhiking in the up above Barcelona but she was French and even though she was living in America and we hitchhiked up to Berkeley land and started going up into France and we ended up in a farmhouse in the middle of the night with five people none of whom we knew and it was just it was very sketchy because we had no idea where we were we had no idea who these people were you know and lots of booze you know there was it was just a little on the if he sighed and we we really were very happy we were there together and nothing happened and all but it was just you know it's just one of those situations where you just don't have very good feelings about it and we got up very early the next morning and just left and went back to the road and it typed out and left the five people there that we just you know it's just I was a gut thing we just felt it was not the place to be and you know thank goodness I think they were all drinking enough that it you know they were not going to be a problem but we just didn't feel good and a couple of other times you know things like that things I did well in those days you don't wear pants in Spain well I Here I am I'm again I'm not this life thing never have been this life thing and I don't never forget I bought this corduroy outfit and I have picture some yen and today and oh my word talk about you know because in those days they they had the pit open which is just they would come right up to your face literally and say whatever their little heart happened to think and it could be bad it could be good it could be you know and most of the time I didn't necessarily understand it because it was slang or something but what I did understand it generally was not very nice and so I you know you learn you learn it started to be a little bit less out there I also taught I taught a little girl three times a week I took the subway in Madrid and I will never forget this long ways I do either ride the subway I had to change the subway twice the metro was called in spades called the metro and I'll never forget this I climbed on like I always do you don't look at people you know you keep your eyes down and you don't look very much up at people and I wasn't and I was just sort of standing by the door and the metro stopped and in came a young man you know over there I was not getting off I was just standing right around the corner and he walked in and he saw me and he went and he talked they were I walked to the other side and stayed there and I didn't really look at him that closely but I just didn't feel good well the next stop he got up close to the door and got ready to get out and as he got out he swung his hand at me like this right in front of me and swung his hand like that I thought he was going to hit me but no what he did is he slapped the window beside me and when and scared me tremendously I mean I just I just was terrified and by then he swept out the door and the door closed and he was gone and I turned around and looked just you know and on the window he he had written it had it said in kayvyun loss Yankees that Yankees go home came by young loss Yankees and so you know I I mean I stuck out like a sore thumb I mean look at me you know I mean I'm in Spain in 1967 I did not blend in buddy so that was there was a kind of course you know where it were in Vietnam at that time so I mean there's all kinds of animosity towards Americans and there's you know lots of things going back on at the colleges and I mean there's I mean 67 - 68 was the year that I was there so the world was just in turmoil and Spain was also in turmoil and we were taken off the campus of the University of Madrid more than once because they had big trucks driving around with yellow paint and they would just spray yellow paint and if you got yellow paint on you you went to you went to jail questions were not asked and so and they would just put you in jail and then they interrogate you and their likelihood of you getting out was great but at the same time the the International Programs didn't want us on campus so they'd take us off and put us in different buildings and different things and you know and the military police was very prevalent and but at the time I didn't think much about it I mean I was 20 21 20 years old 21 years old I just thought you know actually it was kind of exciting and kind of interesting and our professors were incredible and the places we went and the things we did and I mean I was just I mean I was just like at the height of wonderfulness there was a military base there so we had a lot of American guys around when they were all uniforms and you know we'd go out to the bars and you know the Spaniards they were very difficult the spanish men are you know we're very hard to and again i wasn't this life little thing but i did date a few Spaniards but I was really happy to have all these American guys around and they were happy to have American girls around and we just went out in groups all the time and went here and I mean it was a fabulous experience I just everything about it and it really it really made me not really want to come home because I really felt that we and we were a Nam and we were doing all these horrible things and everybody was talking about us and what's hard it was it was a very difficult time and yet I was 21 I thought well you know look where I am look what I'm doing you know and so it was a fabulous year and I fell in love with Spain and I've been in love with Spain all of my life then no girl is I you know I just really I really honestly don't don't look at things that way I guess I really don't know because I I sort of just barge right on through without giving a lot of thought to things sometimes because I look back on some of the things I've done and then going like did you think about that did it even crossed your mind because I've done some pretty you know I mean like I said I was married to somebody for 20 years and really didn't know who this person was and we traveled and did a lot of wonderful things when a lot of wonderful places had a lot of wonderful experiences but I look back on it now and I go I would get in the car with my children and not even know where we were going now that's pretty crazy and you know like I say my kids lived in five different states and 34 different houses and just I mean it was crazy I always always said we had to buy a house why is we buy a house eventually but it never made a stay so you know I look back and some of the things I did and I go what were you thinking but I have you know beautiful children I have had a beautiful life I have everything you know that that anybody could yeah and so I married in nineteen in 1970 I can't and 69 was my first teaching job I always have to tell this in 1969 I got my first teaching job in Gridley high school teaching Spanish and I signed a contract for six thousand nine hundred dollars for the entire year at Gridley high school and that very day that I signed the contract I went out and I bought a $3,600 gold Camaro I spend fifty percent of my salary on of course it was all I'm alone I mean you know but I did I did it on the very day that I that I you know within it within 24 hours of my six thousand nine hundred dollar salary I had bought a three thousand six hundred dollar seventy Camero it's just right up there which I just I love that car ice and I and then I and then I got my job and Gridley and started driving back and forth between Gridley and Chico and got a speeding ticket I'll never forget this either the kids were so creative my high school kids because of course I was 22 and they were running running me ragged I mean literally I mean I was oh my god it was a terrible my first year was just they just knew me they knew they could get past me well in a little Gridley newspaper they print everything you know I mean it's just a little you know gossip thing so some very creative child who I'll never know who it was went through the paper because I did get it was printed up you know stopped for speeding for the time the place and everything and find out remember what it was whatever amount of money it was and it was in the thing so it said it's my maiden name and all well some darling child cut them all out and put them all together so it turned out that I was drunk driving that I'd hit a cow that I had done all this stuff because they had to take them a really long time to put that all together and then they blew it up even and they posted it on the principal's door Monday morning and of course everybody's looking at me teachers and everybody and the principal calls me in and I think what you know so anyway I that was one of the highlights of teaching it Gridley griddling high school I won't ever forget that and the kids of course never let me forget it either so anyway I went back to school and that's where I met my husband my ex was a Vietnam vet back from Vietnam and back to school getting his teaching credential and just I had I had I had had a boyfriend that was probably the love of my life and when I came back my senior year but he was really into the drug scene and so I was always around drugs I never did drugs but I was always there because he was always there and I just sort of became a go for it for him it was awful and I don't know why I did it but it's again you question yourself but anyway he killed himself on drugs I mean he he had an overdose and he died and and that was you know I I was completely done with man I decided I was never getting married I would didn't want anything to do with any of that and I was actually when I met my ex-husband I was 24 and I was seriously looking into adoption because I didn't think I everyone to get married because I'd had a couple of boyfriends before and it just it always just seemed to be just ridiculous and so I was looking into private adoption you know at 24 and 19 it was 1974 and I met well I met oh I wanted to have kids oh absolutely the husband part just didn't click with me at all oh I just had to have kids I had grown up with all those little kids around me all the time I had babysat all my life I had I had always had children around me always and I just I wanted to have my own kids it was the most important thing to me and I wanted to have them before I was 30 and I was 24 so I thought oh my god you know and of course 24 was old then you were already old if you weren't married and it weren't it didn't have a child on the way already you were already old at 24 and I saw nothing on the horizon that was going to bring me a baby and so it was Christmas time and I was living in a house with with a bunch of other people that were working who are no longer college kids and my ex-husband was dating a woman in my house and I'll never forget it so I I was sicker than a dog and I stayed home from Gridley high school that day and and he who I'd met a couple of times before just a person I mean just a guy that came around the house was bit dating Betty I remember Betty but I remember the name anyway he was there at the house and we got to talking and started talking I mean he was in a fraternity and we just you know just sort of hit it off just yakety-yak and stuff and at Christmas time he invited me to go Christmas caroling with his fraternity and so one thing to sort of led to another and all he talked about was having kids all he ever talked about he wanted his six kids and so I said but this is the person this is the one this is the one I'm gonna marry and so anyway it just sort of happened that that he wanted kids and I wanted kids I don't know I think I loved him maybe I don't know if he ever I think what he saw in me is a girl with a Camaro big vote yet I really think that's exactly what he saw was a girl with a Camaro and a good job I had a good job I could afford by you know to live in a nice place you know I had roommates but you know I was doing well I was doing really well for 24 I had no you know no debt and I had a good job and good car and I honestly think that's what he saw but I saw a person that just loved to go he wanted to travel he wanted to go places any wanted kids and so I married him in what June of 1974 we'd known each other for less than a year and we I decided I'll never forget this I decided that we should wait for the babies for a little bit so I went on birth control I'll never forget it our honeymoon night I forgot him I forgot the birth control pills we had to go all the way back to get them because I was so sure that we were gonna do this on my timeline is so silly so anyway I took them for a while and then I said you know I just said it's time pressed you know they have our children so of course we start trying and no babies and no babies and no babies and we're living at this point in time we've left chico and we live in Longview Washington where he'd got a job teaching and we had gone up to Montana and the whole time you were in Montana he was getting his master's degree and I was trying to get pregnant that was all I was doing I should have gotten a master's degree but and I did get a master's degree it just says instead of doing because I did 97% of the work on that master's degree I mean he probably wouldn't agree with that but its absolute and I substitute taught and I tried to get pregnant and we saw every kind of doctor Under the Sun he finally got a job went to Longview Washington and still trying to get pregnant and we saw I went up to a fertility clinic in Portland Oregon and worked with them and you took pills and took ovulation and all that stuff did you do read every kind of book under the Sun and no baby he said no babies and and no not anything no miscarriage nothing and so anyway we were with dr. Thomas and he said you know what there is a the daughter of one of my nurses who's pregnant and she's gonna give her baby up for adoption do you want the baby this is December we're going home for Christmas and we say absolutely positively no doubt about it we're in line and you know we've known so many people who signed up for adoption and had been on waiting lists for years and you know we hadn't really done that sort of thing yet we're still thinking that we don't be able to have a child and so anyway we're I mean we jump on it we say absolutely and they go well the baby's due March 18th we go that's fine so from December to March we're gonna be parents and so but we don't tell a soul we do not tell a soul because we just don't want anybody to Nix this thing so anyway we wait and wait and the last like the last month of her pregnancy she would go and visit the doctor she was a nurses nurses daughter and he'd call us immediately and say this is what she's saying that's how she is is so we felt very much part of this whole process never matter I knew her name as well as I know you know anybody's name I knew the father's name I knew everything because we were going to pay all the hospital bills that's all that the deal was and of course we're gonna make it legal and so forth so anyway on March 30th we had a baby boy and brought him home on April Fool's Day I always give him a bad time about that's jayjay brought him home on April Fool's Day to our house in Longview Washington a lovely home again we hadn't told anybody so that day we spent cutting out great big blue letters about this big and we plastered them across the front of our of our window we have a new baby boy and of course Longview Community College where my husband was teaching they've got wind of it and they came out and took a picture of it and put it on the front page of the newspaper with Jim holding the the the new boy and Mees beside him and was just such a sweet thing and so anyway we were thrilled to death and of course we got on the phone and told everybody and we're just delighted we had a new baby boy and with thrilled to death and all this time when you're trying to get pregnant you always think you're pregnant but you never are and you go so I will never forget and I went to Planned Parenthood because I didn't want to go to the doctor and how the doctor tell me again for the umpteenth time that I wasn't pregnant so we I went to Planned Parenthood my brand-new baby boy was told that I was pregnant and I was like whoa oh you know it was such an exciting day and of course a lot of people go to Planned Parenthood don't want to hear that pregnant that's why they went to Planned Parenthood so here I am with a brand-new baby boy three weeks old and I find out I'm pregnant so I'm of course I'm just thrilled beyond words so we just called everybody not a week before and told everybody we had a baby boy now we waited a little bit longer of course because we wanted to make sure and told everybody that I was pregnant because well of course you know you're such a you're such a casebook you know story and but anyway so my little girl was born eight months later she was born just before Thanksgiving by that point in time my wandering husband had lost a job this is the first job he lost I don't know if you really lost the job I'll never know these stories maybe he didn't maybe he just wanted to move again but we moved and I was seven months pregnant and we had a house full of big oak furniture and a beautiful home he had everything I mean it was I've had everything I've had everything any woman could ever want I've had it and anyway I'm seven months pregnant and I'm carrying a new baby boy and my ex decides to move so I don't even blink I don't even do anything I just okay where are we going and we moved to a Nazi Washington and he got a job at Wenatchee community college and you know but he always talked Community College most of the time and we settled in in a darting little house and bought a house and Karen was she was born brought home to a big farm house the freezing cold and the dead of winter she's born at Thanksgiving and all of Jim's family came and here it was it was awful snow up to our up to our waists just tons and tons of snow and cold so snowy and so cold that Jim's brother and sister could not even go skiing so there's everybody sitting around looking at my stomach going well you know when all the way through Thanksgiving and still don't care and she find the game like three days after Thanksgiving and of course she's my Thanksgiving baby I mean I just just just sweetest gift in the whole world and the next thing I know my husband started a business and the next thing I know that's not going anywhere and we're moving to Moscow Idaho so off we go to Moscow Idaho my kids are like two and three my dream is to stay home and be a mom that's what I want to do I want to stay home I want to be a mom but it doesn't come true because we moved to Moscow Idaho and one of the one of my dear friends still today is a is a a colleague of my my husband my ex-husband Jim Gowdy and his wife and we became very good friends very close friends and she has two little boys basically the same ages as my little boy and little girl and so I went off to work I went to Washington State University and and went to work but anyway we stayed there until the kids were about in the third or fourth grade and then the Wanderlust hit my husband again or I don't know he was working at the University of Idaho at that point in time is an accountant and I don't know what happened I never I never paid attention I guess I don't know I was raising kids and so anyway we ended up in Tucson Arizona after we went from the top of the United States where it's freezing cold we're about 200 miles from the Canadian border to about a hundred miles for the Matta from the Mexican border where it's blazing hot and I just go along like it's nothing I mean I'm insane sometimes I look back on it he leaves in February he leaves me with two young kids in the dead of winter and just takes off and moves to Tucson and I just sort of you know get everything together and do it all and get us there and he comes back and helps drive the truck but I mean it's so amazing I look back on it now and I go unbelievable oh god yes yeah yeah that's right that was it and I I can honestly tell you that it never it never occurred to me to say no even even though every time he went somewhere we bought a house because I insisted I insisted that we buy a house and I'll tell you twice in Moscow he bought a house without even telling me we get to Tucson Arizona he had bought a house had not told me I mean those things are just that's unforgivable but i think bagon it now it's really unforgivable but again you're like you're saying it's just sort of what you know this is the person I chose this is a person I'm staying with this is that's irrelevant the irrelevant it's totally irrelevant you know because the I didn't have a choice I mean you know I moved into it I lived in them I you know I did what I did but you know I didn't I really didn't care about the house one way or the other as long as the four of us were together we're all doing what was supposed to be doing you know and I took care of the house and he went to work and played golf and I look back on it now and I'm just like what it was such a wonderful dad and then one day he just decided not to be dad I don't know he's disappeared I don't know I'll never know the whole story I have a rendition my children have a rendition he's gone he's just gone he's well we I think that yeah and they've tried real hard in the last 10 years to have a relationship with him but it's obvious that he's not interested he's not interested in having a relationship with him it's his loss I do feel sad because you know it's sad it's everybody everybody's it's everybody's lost you know so many I know so many people who've figured that out how to do that but he's never you know the kids tried they really really tried they tried really hard to have a relationship with him but it's been a good ten years I think and finally I just said you know this is it I'm done so in 94 took me four years 1994 I finally divorced him and come to find out can't paid income taxes and hadn't done a ton of things he's an accountant for years see I never paid any attention to any of this nothing I never wrote a check I never I never signed my you know signed anything except the houses we bought all these houses we'd done all this stuff you know I'd done all these things through all these years and he had a trail behind him as long as you can see so that's fine and having to take care of this and two kids do you have any just just that you know I've done it all I've done at all I've seen everything I've been everywhere I've had everything but I ain't done I got a lots and lots of lovin three more weeks to go through my weeks three more years of school and then you're not gonna see me if I have a chance to get out of here everywhere you name it if I can figure out a way to get there I have I really want to see New Zealand and Australia those are too high on my list I want to see more of Canada I've never been to the east coast I only to New York twice which really doesn't count I haven't seen the east coast so I want to go you know wouldn't it be nice if wouldn't it be nice if that's my new mantra wouldn't it be nice if I'm gonna figure out some way to do that so sad my stalkers yeah I talk too much yeah yeah so anyway that's it I totaled a whole lot more than I probably should have you don't think so yeah and you think so yeah yeah I'm very fortunate I'm very very fortunate very important lady you're welcome you're welcome you're welcome yeah don't take me off take me off

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Keywords: life story, legacy video, growing up in the sixties, 1960s, Spain, Spanish, David Hoffman filmmaker, David Hoffman video, adopted, Hippie lifestyle, Female stories, women's stories, aging hippie, traveling Mexico, independent woman, growing up in the 70s, 1970s, Spanish American, visiting Mexico, for women, by women, reaching 60, 60 years old, 60-year-old woman, single 60-year-old, single 60, on her own

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Length: 40min 19sec (2419 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 08 2019