Diary entries.

Mrs. Kamm’s first role model…..November 1963 – Muskegon, Michigan

Dear Diary,

Many of my friends want to grow up, become Drs & lawyers and such, and lead boring, pedestrian lives. How utterly repugnant and nauseating!  Me, on the otherhand, have set my standards much higher. I have decided to pattern my life after Dinah Shore and see the USA in my Chevrolet. The only thing I regret is not being able to be an octoroon like Dinah.  Octoroons are just better. Perhaps I will go to hell for lying but the next time someone asks my ancestor I am going to tell them that I am an octoroon. https://youtu.be/Ef9nv76UuFQ

Mrs. Kamm’s first Epiphany……March 1964 – Muskegon, Michigan

Dear Diary,

Visiting funeral homes is such a religious high. I just came from  visiting Aunt Marcellia laid out at the Clock Funeral Home. She looked so peaceful. Perhaps it was the surrounding – the piped in organ music, the smell of roses & the air conditioning on 60 degrees but I felt so moved and the entire world came into focus. There is something really nifty about staring at corpses. I can’t quite figure it out but it is a real turn on. They say a picture is worth a thousand words,  so I had to take a photograph. Isn’t half as exciting as being there. I would compare looking at the photo to listening to a Liberace on a phonograph record. Catching the act in Vegas would be better. But what the hell. You can’t have everything