? ?Carrie, I don’t want to take your bed from you. I’ll take the couch.? ?Hester, I can’t do that – the bed is yours. And that�...s my final word on it.? ?Carrie, you know I can’t take your bed for a month. Look its big enough for both of us, if you don’t mind sharing it with my big old Klompen feet?. ?Now Hester, you know that that is just not right. Nor is it proper. What would Momma say, if she found out?? ?How’s Momma gonna find out unless you tell her,. Also it made getting in and out of cars better. I lost my balance some since the leg just chose to give way now and then. The cane made the staggering me look less like a drunk."I'm riding with you," Anya said."He said he would kill her if I didn't come alone, so we have to at least pretend to play along." We can pretend with me hidden in the back seat. If the shooting starts, and you know it will, even one more gun can make a difference. Remember for lack of a nail the battle was lost. So. There were even folks who showed up with busses and took the poor, dirt scratching, share cropping, farmer straight to the factory. Go to work, son. You can find a place to live after hours.In 1900, Detroit had a population of almost two hundred ninety thousand. Ten years? ... four hundred sixty-five thousand, and ten years after that? ... a buck and a quarter shy of a million.By 1930? ... one and a half million ... they built cars. Predominately poor southern white trash making so much money. ‘Guess you’re just gonna have to walk. You don’t live too far away.’ ‘I can’t walk home alone,’ she insisted. ‘Look, I’ll go with you,’ I said. All I wanted to do was go home, but I figured I could walk Kimmy back to her place, get my coat back, and then call a cab. We waved the others goodbye and started walking. It was freezing, and I was visibly shaking. ‘Come here,’ Kimmy said, opening up the coat. ‘There’s room for two.’ I gladly snuggled into the coat. The warmth from both our bodies.