In late 1940 or early 1941, Daddy found work at Camp Barkeley and we bought a little two-room house from Burley Hallman at Clyde, Texas. It was a new house, but there was no indoor plumbing. We had a kitchen, and a living room, which also doubled as a bedroom. I know we moved from Hico to Clyde in the middle of winter, probably early January in 1941. I don’t remember having very many friends in those months before I started to school, but I knew the time for me to start to school was just around the corner and I couldn’t wait to get started.
Strangely enough I don’t seem to remember very much of what happened between the time we moved to Clyde and the time I started to school in September. I do remember starting to school one day late because we had gone back to Hico to visit my grandparents. It seemed to me like I was far behind. The kids all seemed to know one another. I thought I had entered another world, but they all seemed to take everything in stride. I was sure they were looking at me and thinking, “Where did he come from? And what’s he doing here?” It was the second day of school and I was already playing catchup
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