Long ride out of town...
There was a layoff at the Reynold's Metal factory and about the same time the University of Louisville was buying up the houses in the neighborhood so they could expand. Mom and dad sold their house (they paid $4,000 for it). They had Mayflower come box everything up. But they were running out of room so I had to choose only one toy to take with me. Dang it. It was hard to choose between my big yellow dump truck which I played with the absolute most and my doll which my sister played with the absolute most. What to do? So I left the dump truck and brought the doll. I had the impression mom was mad about that. I think she wanted me to take the dump truck so she could give Barbara my doll-later she could say that I didn't choose it so I must not have wanted it. I played with that doll clear through to the 6th grade. I never had a Barbie doll-just my curly short blonde haired doll. Then we rode the train all the way to California. We'd walk from our train car to the dining car...