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AI: Well, let's back up just a little bit, just before that, because before the break, you had just been telling about how Pat then had remarried in Chicago, and then, so for a short while then, I understand you moved into a new place on the north side with Pat and her husband and kids, and then shortly after that, then moved to be with your son Jim near Diversey Parkway. And at that time, what did that area look like there near Diversey Parkway?

PB: It was a very nice, kind of a residential district at that time, and there was that little shopping center, so it was very nice. It was one block to the shopping center, and where I lived was quite nice.

AI: And you were still then working at the Dubois Studio?

PB: Yes, but then, by that time, Joe had bought a car, so he drove, and so it was very nice. But then I had an accident while I was there, living on the north side. I lived in... well, the first time when I moved up there, before I had moved to Diversey Park way, I think it was, we were living in an apartment, and there was no railing on the stairs. We lived upstairs, my son and I lived upstairs, but that was after... let's see, that must have been after I had been living with my daughter and her husband.

AI: And did you fall on those stairs?

PB: Yes, I fell. Pat fell the first time, she broke her heel and she fell down the stairs, but we didn't say anything at the time. But then I was going to work one morning and I fell headfirst down the stairs. And right at the foot of the stairs there was a sliding door that was just right against the stairs. And if that door hadn't been open, I'd have probably hit my head and broken my neck, because I fell headfirst down the stairs. Anyhow, I went out the door because the door was open, but I really hurt my knee and my foot. I had a bad cut on my foot, but then I went on to work, because by that time, Joe, I could hear he was honking the horn, so I just got in the car and went to work. But then when I got to my office, my foot had swollen so much so I went to a doctor across the street and then I thought, "Well, I could sue the fellow," because there was no light there and no railing. So immediately, he put a railing up, and he put a light there. But then he sent photographers out, because he was worried. But I said I didn't want to sue him if he would just pay the doctor bills. But he did pay the doctor bills, because I was coming out to the coast, and I was already decided I was coming back home.

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