TRANSCRIPT

WM - Wilma (Miller) Morrison, interviewee / LR - Lyn Royce, interviewer

LR: Okay, now... I open this book and you go, 'Oh, yep there's cute guy.' So, tell me about cute guy!

WM: Oh... What's to tell? He's cute.

LR: He is!

WM: Yeah, he, um... He was a friend of, uh, Mynie Sutton who was a kind of a, a famous jazz musician in this area. When I was in my teens, I used to um... I used to rent this hall? Uh, and uh, like the jazz musicians who were playing around and about in Hamilton, they, they would come after their gigs and, and play and stuff. And so 1 time Mynie came, I guess Lorne was with him, but I, I was busy at the door so I didn't get to meet him. And then, uh, we were at a party, and uh, Mynie's wife Mae introduced us. And so we just kinda used to talk a lot.

LR: Mhmm...

WM: Talk... Took me 5 years to convince him to marry me.

LR: Really?

WM: Yeah, mhmm. And we did it on impulse - we were in Detroit on holiday...

LR: 5 years and then on impulse?!?

WM: mhmmm....

LR: Okay... [laughs] I don't know that that qualifies as impulse!

WM: Oh! No?!!

LR: [still laughing] 5 years prep time...

WM: So then, yeah, that's when I called my Mom to tell her, 'Guess what happened, Ma?' She said,' Ohh...' I said, 'Are you sittin' down?' She said, 'Yeah, I am now!'