After that got going good he said he needed to find a church. I said, “How can we afford a church?” With his little salary, we could barely afford to feed our kids—we had gone from four kids to five to six to seven. I mean, after a while they just dropped like eggs and we loved having them, but I couldn’t see how we could afford a church with all these kids. Your sister Helen, I didn’t have one prenatal visit to a clinic or anything when I had her. I just walked into the hospital and dropped her like an egg and went home. How we fed them, well, it was meal to meal. I shopped at Goodwill for
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