Dorothy Eisenberg - Excerpt 6 Transcript
(Las Vegas, Nevada; August 22, 2001)

DE: Okay, but Ann is a dear friend of Jean's and mine and Mary, and we went up to see Jean. It was the winter (laughing). We rented a car, in the snow, and drove there, and (DEisenberg6) she greeted us and made us feel so comfortable, not at all uncomfortable about what she was facing, and took us around and showed us all the things in her house and how she had earmarked them for each of her children and her friends and what she was leaving and what she was doing, and talked very frankly and openly about her life and about her coming death, and I don't - there's only one person that has ever talked to me like that and that was my mother, and I just - she made us feel so much better about seeing her. I had seen her in Las Vegas twice before that, after she knew that she was ill, and we had a wonderful visit at Renee Diamond's home, and we were about eight of us talking about old times, and I wish somebody had recorded it, it was an amazing conversation, but we talked about when we - the Equal Rights Amendment and we talked about all kinds of things, things we lost and things we won, and - but to be with her at that last visit was so amazing, how she made us all feel that - that it's something that - that she had come to terms with and we had to come to terms with, too. (DEisenberg6) But when she showed us each picture and each thing that she had for her children and her grandchildren and her friends, it was amazing to see, it really was.