re: Carville leper colony

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Explain. Your stories are always great.

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My grandfather immigrated from Spain as a child. Very poor and illiterate. He married a Cajun woman who was also poor and illiterate. But she beat him down every day.

He spoke Spanish and she spoke French. So they had to communicate in broken English.

He worked driving a team of horses delivering sugar cane syrup. He tried to make her happy by saving enough money to buy her a washing machine. She got pissed at the waste of money and beat him up. He couldn't defend himself since he was small, loved her, and had an artificial leg due to a childhood accident.

When trucks came around he lost his job and worked as a meter reader. I still remember him coming to my house to check the water meter when I was about 5. That's the last time I saw him before Pineville.

His wife moved into our house a few years after his death. My dad, bro and I built the extra room ourselves. No contractors. We had no money.

Grandma was a bitch from hell. She lived to be 90 and was NEVER happy. I had a lot of conversations with her when I was in HS. She kept telling me how much she missed her husband. I wanted to say "Then why did you treat him like a POS when he was alive?" But I didn't

I did learn a lesson. Don't whine about how good things used to be. Enjoy the now. Because the now is gonna be how things used to be.