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Politics : Sioux Nation

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Dec 19 3:59 PM EST

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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (338537)	4/5/2021 12:43:33 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) of 361717

I had the good, the bad and the ugly in my childhood. Neither of my parents went to college and were pretty naive and so I got very little instruction from them. And my dad was a right wing car salesman and an alcoholic. My mom was the brains in the family and the kindest person alive. But my younger years were pretty nice, and having Bobby Herr move in next door was really a god send for me. His parents moved to the US escaping Hitler and were part of the aristocracy I think. They had him later in life. He became one of my two best friends, and every day I would go see him and he would be sitting in his big blue chair reading a book. He was my mentor and taught me to read and to think. He went on to UC Berkeley and I think he was editor of the Bolt law review. Bobby and I would have gardens in the summer and read and play games. We would go to the library and come back with books and he had twin beds and he would lie on one, and I the other and we would read all afternoon. His mother would come in from time to time and bring us ginger snap cookies and milk. When we tired of reading we would open his huge book case and play games. We played every game known to man including two handed bridge called Jo Jotte. As I remember it had not been checked out since the 20's-lol. So I was pitted against his thinking every day for almost ten years. I skipped the third grade, but my high school years were one of survival and I did no homework at all and my grades were shit. One of the reasons I had the courage to even go to a community college is they had no requirements and I could always beat Bobby at chess. I often wonder what my life would have been like, what would have happened to me without Bobby's mentoring. He went on to become one of San Francisco's most famous lawyers and I think did the SF giants deal!? PS My freshman year at college Bobby and I spent the summer in San Louis Obispo and we went back to our old habits. He worked as a bus boy and I as a dish washer and in the evenings he would sit in one chair and I another and read. I read To Kill a Mocking bird that summer which became my favorite book and I still remember asking Bobby what the word pedantic meant-lol. Bobby knew everything.

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