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Malba
Decatur
Dakota
husband
farm
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(She grew up with an aunt, and had an older brother. She was married at 18. She worked in a dress or textile plant of some vague definition in Decatur, South Dakota. She could not describe her duties.
(We had great trouble with the place of Decatur. This is my interpretation of what Malba said, and I believe now it is wrong. Malba’s pronunciation was something like Deka-tur, with the accent on the first syllable.
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(While her husband worked in the factory he also owned a farm outside Decatur. After marriage the couple moved to the farm. It was poor ground for farming and the husband was a poor farmer. Malba mentioned this several times in a rather derogatory way.
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(Malba could not explain what she did between visits with us. She “learned things.” She agreed with us that she knew more now than when on earth. She didn’t know when, if ever, she would move onto another plane. She remarked quite often that Jane and I were not at our best tonight and that she wasn’t either. She said that now she will often do things she doesn’t like to do, but could not explain when I tried to learn more. She did say everything was easier though. She said the population of Decatur was about 12,000.
(Our road atlas does not list a town called Decatur in either North or South Dakota, nor any town or city of 12,000, for that matter. Jane suggests that since Decatur sounds similar to Dakota I might have confused the two names. We will try to clear up the mystery next we meet Malba.)
