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Then I went downstairs and enlisted. Mother was happy with Dick Kelley, and by now knew that politics was a rough game in which the only answer to a low blow is winning. That's all. Ole Hanson married her; and Sven Hanson and I, and Dora and Ingrid, helped the youngsters start their homestead.

I knew some of this from Helen herself, but I learned more about Helen from Dora the Woman. Though a bigger restaurant would mean even more work. A couple of days after the New Hampshire vote, I flew to Atlanta. I went to a debate in the Bronx, moderated by the borough president, Fernando Ferrer, who would become a supporter.