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OH:
She was more stressed. She exhibited more stress in our conversations.
JO:
When did you notice that change? 94, middle of 94, you know, beginning of
95?

OH:
It was sometime in the year before her death.
JO:
So, about one year before her death? Did you notice a change in her
personality or a lot more stress?

OH:
Well, during, just in that conversation certainly. I don’t know if it was
throughout because, my general impression was that she was working through a lot of stuff. It was harder, but that she was doing it.

JO:
Did she say how much time she was at work actually working?
OH:
No, I don’t remember that.
SF:
How about any conversations, Carol, that you had prior to your last
conversation with her. Do you remember when that was? Or a letter perhaps?

OH:
Urn, I found some letters, what’d I do, that, just a couple, one from when
she first moved back to Dallas, and one that she sent me, urn, from St. Petersburg in February of 94.

SF:
That’s when she was living in Coachman.
OH: Yeah, this is here, and this didn’t say anything, it was just, it was just, an I’m
glad you’re my friend letter, you know. This letter that I found when she was in Dallas was when she had just moved back, this is October of 89, and um, she was talking about how difficult her life was with her mom. Urn, these are really the only letters I had from her. We usually corresponded by phone.

SF:
Right, or Christmas cards, maybe, or something like that?
CH:
No, I would’ve had the cards, I would’ve had the cards, so, a lot of times
what would happen is, I would be going to Dallas, and I’d call and, either call her at her office, this is when she was at the publishing company there, or else, if I didn’t know where she was, I’d call her mom and get her number, because her mom still lived on the street over from my mother.

JO:
Did you know the location of the publishing office when it was down here?
OH:
When it was in Dallas?
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