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Marry?
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Yeah, I guess there was, a few years back.
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Who was she?
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A girl I knew out in California.
Mary Simms was her name.
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Why didn't you? Marry her, I mean.
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She was married already.
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A farmer married her
when she was 14 years old.
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She had two kids.
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Wasn't much to look at, really.
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Just a raw-boned Okie girl.
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But she was a fine, decent,
and faithful woman.
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At least until I met her.
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What happened?
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She ran off with me.
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I told her I loved her just to get to her.
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I knew it was a lie.
I thought she figured it was a lie, too.
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But she took me serious.
She told me she loved me, too.
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And she meant it.
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We bummed around the country...
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broke most of the time.
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We even worked
the fruit harvest for awhile.
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Lived in some...
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flophouses and migrant labor shacks.
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It was all right.
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It was more than all right.
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I was happier than I think I've ever been
before in my life.
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Before or since.
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What happened?
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I got tired of it, I guess.
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I started wondering what I was doing
with this raw-boned Okie girl...
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thinking about all the women
that were hanging around the bars...
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that I worked in.
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I told her I felt we'd made a mistake.