Annie [No Name Given] and Anne Smith

[00:03] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Hello. My name is Ann Smith. I'm 55 years old. Today is November 3, 2023, and we are here in Mobile, Alabama. And I'm with my friend, Ann Pearl Brantley. We've been friends for a long time. So, Ann you want to tell us who you are?

[00:30] ANN SMITH: My name is Ann

[00:32] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: And how old are you? You don't want to tell us? Okay. That's okay. Do you know what today's date is?

[00:38] ANN SMITH: What?

[00:40] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: November 3, 2023.

[00:44] ANN SMITH: Well, yeah, well, first I get that.

[00:49] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: And you know where we are? Do you know what city we're in? Mobile. Yeah. And who am I. Who are you with today? You're with your friend Ann. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Do you want to tell me what you like best about living at first light community? Would that be a good place to start? You want to tell me about it?

[01:23] ANN SMITH: Yeah.

[01:24] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Can you talk into the microphone so that she can hear you?

[01:27] ANN SMITH: No.

[01:28] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: No? You don't want to? Okay. Well, I know one thing that you love to do that might. Might help you kind of relax a little bit. Do you want to sing a song with me?

[01:40] ANN SMITH: Well, no.

[01:41] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: No. Well, when. When I first knew you, I was eleven years old when we first met. And my dad was on the board back then, so we would always go to events and things. And what I remember the most about you, Ann Pearl, is you were always smiling and singing and dancing, and you loved to sing and dance, and you loved it when everybody was all together. And so what I've always known about you is that you really enjoy singing and just having a good time. So maybe that would be a way to kind of open up. You want to sing this little bite of mine? You love that song.

[02:29] ANN SMITH: Look, I'm going to. I'm gonna use it.

[02:53] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: I love it when you sing. That song makes me so happy. It's my favorite song that you sing. Yeah, it's a really. That's such a special song. That song always makes me think of you. Yeah. Well, do you want it? What do you like to eat? I know sometimes you love. You're always excited about mealtime. What's your favorite thing to eat?

[03:15] ANN SMITH: I love all. Mmm.

[03:26] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Gosh, I know you like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

[03:30] ANN SMITH: Peanut butter, summer. And, you know.

[03:42] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Crackers. Yeah. I know you always like dessert, too. Do you like chocolate?

[03:50] ANN SMITH: Chocolate?

[03:51] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Chocolate.

[03:52] ANN SMITH: Mm hmm.

[03:53] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. So one thing we like to do together is we like to visit on the porch at your house, don't we? You like to sit on the swing and on the porch, and usually we. I usually bring something sweet. Huh? Last time I brought. Do you remember what I brought last week for you to eat? Do you remember a pie? Yeah, an apple pie. Was it good? Yeah. And every time I go to visit Ann she gives me something that she made. So this time she gave me a beautiful tree that she had painted for me to decorate. When it comes time for Christmas, it's a Christmas tree that she painted. And I have lots of artwork that Annie's. Annie's always loved to do artwork. Do you want to tell us about some of the art projects you like to do? That's something you've always enjoyed. You don't want to tell us about it? No. Well, you like to paint. Yeah. And I know that for the marathon, you know, they always make canvases to give to all the runners. And you've helped with that. Do you remember doing that? Is there a certain part of that that you like? You like gluing the paper on the canvas? Yeah. What else do you like about it? Like just being with your friends at the AC. We call the activity center the AC. And you like being there a lot. That's always your favorite place. It's been kind of hard since COVID huh? We don't get to do the same things, so that's been hard on our community, hasn't it? Yeah. But one thing that we did together during COVID that I thought was so much fun, we facetimed all the time. Do you remember that? We would always have FaceTime phone calls. And sometimes we'd put my dog on there. Do you remember my dog's name? But Willie. Willie Nelson. You remember? You'd always want to talk to Willie Nelson. Yeah. And sometimes I'd take a walk down to the water and facetime you down there. And he always likes seeing the bay. Yeah. What else?

[06:13] ANN SMITH: How fun. Mar goall how fun.

[06:16] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Mar goall you like Mardi Gras? Yeah.

[06:20] ANN SMITH: Well, girl. Yeah. Our bead.

[06:24] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Get the beads. Yeah. What else?

[06:28] ANN SMITH: Me pie.

[06:30] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Moon pies. Yeah.

[06:32] ANN SMITH: And little cup.

[06:39] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Little cups. Yeah. They always throw those, huh?

[06:43] ANN SMITH: Well, good mug.

[06:46] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: You like the floats? Do you yell, throw me something, mister?

[06:51] ANN SMITH: Yeah, I do.

[06:53] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: And do they throw you stuff? Yeah. Yeah. Do you like, where do you like to stand? Do you like to be in the crowd or you like to kind of stand back from the crowd?

[07:03] ANN SMITH: Stand back.

[07:04] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: I like to stand back, too. I don't like to be up close. I like to stand back and watch it. I love all the lights and the colors. You like that, too? Yeah. Mardi gras a fun time here, isn't it? Yeah. Do you do you all walk to the parade?

[07:20] ANN SMITH: Yeah.

[07:20] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. That's nice. You live close enough where you can walk and see the parade. That's. That's really special. That's something that you can do. Yeah. Do you want to tell me a little bit about your sister that lives at first light too?

[07:38] ANN SMITH: I got one city because she's a bad mo.

[07:43] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: She's so sweet.

[07:45] ANN SMITH: Real sweet.

[07:46] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: She's a sweetheart. What's her name?

[07:49] ANN SMITH: Barbara Jean.

[07:50] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Barbara Jean, yeah. Yeah. And she's a sweetheart, huh? She is.

[07:56] ANN SMITH: You're my best sister.

[07:58] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: She's your best sister. She sure is. And so she lives in a house with your good friend Lily Belle. Lily Belle, that's right. Yeah. Claude. Claude, yeah. And Mark lives there, right?

[08:18] ANN SMITH: Yeah.

[08:19] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. Yeah. So it's so nice that you all. You get to see each other and you go visit. Do you go visit Barbara Jean at.

[08:31] ANN SMITH: Her house by the year?

[08:35] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. Yeah. Who's older, you or Barbara Jean?

[08:41] ANN SMITH: I bet old ish.

[08:44] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: You're the oldest, are you?

[08:48] ANN SMITH: You are my sister. I must have self beautiful come by you. We won't go borrow. I tell my sister. No, do not. I get up, I go both. Yeah. I'm going to tell you. Bow.

[09:07] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. Um hmm. What else? Do you have something you want to ask me?

[09:21] ANN SMITH: Yes, I would date anyone. Would have a crowd dancing. Hey. Ooh. Whole four per cat. Good.

[09:48] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: I don't know what that is now.

[09:49] ANN SMITH: The pep car is.

[09:52] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Oh, the parked car.

[09:53] ANN SMITH: Yeah. Come back and get you.

[09:57] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Oh. Will you go to Sonic and you park your car? Is that what you're talking about?

[10:02] ANN SMITH: What big shall you show?

[10:05] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: It's good. I. Do you like that? Yeah. Yeah. A lot of times you always ask me how my mom is.

[10:14] ANN SMITH: Where.

[10:15] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Where my mama is. Yes. My mama. My mama is at her house. Do you remember? My mom used to. She used to work at first light. Do you remember that?

[10:24] ANN SMITH: Mm hmm.

[10:25] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: A long time ago. And my dad. My dad helped a lot there too. But you always asking me where my mama is. Do you remember my mom?

[10:36] ANN SMITH: Mm hmm.

[10:36] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. Cathy. Yeah. Yeah. She always asks about you. She'll be excited when I go see her this afternoon. I'll show her the picture from this that we got to do this today together. Remember? I was eleven when I first met you. That was a long time ago, huh? We've been friends for a long time. Yeah. Do you want to tell me a little bit about the people that live at the house with you?

[11:12] ANN SMITH: Johnny.

[11:14] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: John. Yep.

[11:20] ANN SMITH: Joe. Omaha. John.

[11:32] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: And Chris.

[11:33] ANN SMITH: Chris.

[11:34] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Chris. Yeah.

[11:37] ANN SMITH: Papa.

[11:39] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. What do y'all like to do I know? You like to watch cowboy movies, don't you? Westerns. What do they do on those westerns? What do you always say that? Pow, pow, pow, pow. That's what you always say that they're doing.

[12:01] ANN SMITH: Mm hmm.

[12:02] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. And then you like to watch golf on tv, don't you? I think that's so interesting that you like to watch golf. Golf makes me sleepy. So when you're watching golf, do you fall asleep or do you stay awake.

[12:17] ANN SMITH: Night with my tv?

[12:22] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Does it make you want to go night night? It makes me want to fall right to sleep. Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to tell me anything that you remember about from being when you were a little girl?

[12:51] ANN SMITH: Well, no. My niece. My niece.

[12:58] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: You have a niece?

[12:59] ANN SMITH: Mm hmm.

[13:00] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: You do? Yeah. What's her name?

[13:03] ANN SMITH: Carol.

[13:04] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Kara?

[13:05] ANN SMITH: Mm hmm. This is a good. I want my mama dog. My mama.

[13:13] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: So she didn't want you to hold her? She just wanted her mama. Oh.

[13:20] ANN SMITH: They got two. I got one. I got two sisters and one boy.

[13:28] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Two sisters and one brother.

[13:30] ANN SMITH: Two sisters.

[13:31] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Two sisters. What's your other sister's name?

[13:34] ANN SMITH: Meg.

[13:36] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: I didn't know about your other sister. Well, that's wonderful. I didn't know you had two sisters.

[13:42] ANN SMITH: Mother. Go. Mother motherhood.

[13:47] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. And your brother, you said you had a brother.

[13:50] ANN SMITH: Two brothers. Got two boys and one sister.

[13:54] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Two brothers and one sister. Okay, okay. I have one sister and one brother.

[14:03] ANN SMITH: As that. Go home. Quit. I want my shoe up, mama. You get your shoes but on.

[14:09] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Tell you to put your shoes on.

[14:11] ANN SMITH: No, my knee. First of all, you give shit your best friend or you go by for pussy, but out.

[14:24] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. Um hmm. Let's see. What else do you have any special memories you wanted to share? Something special that happened to you?

[14:42] ANN SMITH: Well, I got my tired.

[14:46] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: You're tired?

[14:47] ANN SMITH: No, my best friend.

[14:52] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Oh, your boyfriend?

[14:53] ANN SMITH: I die.

[14:54] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: He did die just last week. Yes, he did have teeth. It's right. That's right, he did. He had to have his teeth pulled. And then he didn't do well after that, did he? You want to tell. I would love for you to tell me something about Eddie.

[15:13] ANN SMITH: What, do I go see my boyfriend if I go? Go?

[15:19] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah, his teeth hurt. Yeah. So they had to pull him. Yeah. Yeah. What did you and Eddie like to do together? Y'all always were smiling and laughing and having fun. What did y'all. I know you like to go get ice cream together.

[15:33] ANN SMITH: Mm hmm.

[15:34] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: What kind of flavor? What flavor did Eddie like to get?

[15:39] ANN SMITH: Pico pie. Pecan pop.

[15:44] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Pecan. Pecan. Yeah. And which one did you like pickup pot. You like to get the same one?

[15:53] ANN SMITH: Mm hmm.

[15:54] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. What else did y'all do together? Tell me. Can you tell me a story about Eddie?

[16:02] ANN SMITH: I don't see my boy. You be so sweet.

[16:08] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: He is so sweet. Yeah. Do you miss him?

[16:11] ANN SMITH: I miss chaopic.

[16:17] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah? You miss him a lot. I know. I'm sorry.

[16:20] ANN SMITH: I missed my best friend ever. Ever.

[16:24] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: I know. I'm so sorry that that happened. We miss Eddie, huh? Yeah. That just happened last week. Yeah. So we're gonna have a service on Tuesday for him. You think you'll sing a song at the service?

[16:43] ANN SMITH: Yeah.

[16:44] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: I know what song? You just sang for me when we were outside, you might sing that one about Jesus loves me. You want to sing that one for Eddie on your recording? Will you sing that one? You did so well. I love that one. I know that Eddie's listening to you sing those songs. Yeah, I think so. Do you think so?

[17:29] ANN SMITH: Mm hmm.

[17:30] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah.

[17:30] ANN SMITH: I miss my friend.

[17:32] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: I know you miss your friend. Yeah. It's hard, isn't it, when people that we love die. Isn't that?

[17:39] ANN SMITH: Yeah. So, yeah.

[17:41] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Cause it makes you sad, huh?

[17:43] ANN SMITH: Mm hmm.

[17:44] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah, me too.

[17:46] ANN SMITH: Well, I will cry when I get tear.

[17:54] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah, you cry and have tears and. Yeah. That's good, though, to cry, don't you think?

[18:00] ANN SMITH: Sometimes you doubt. Sometimes.

[18:05] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Sometimes you cry and sometimes you don't. Yeah, I agree. Sometimes. Sometimes I don't like to cry in front of people. What about you? You don't like to cry in front of people, do you? No. No. I know. Sometimes. Maybe it's easier to cry when you're by yourself. Yeah, I think so, too. Yeah. Yeah. I'm so glad that you wanted to talk about him. That means a lot that you would talk about him. Because I know that's very close to your heart and that you would want to share that. That's really special, that you would share that. Yeah. Do you remember when you first met Eddie?

[19:08] ANN SMITH: I remember Eddie. One time, my brother and her pay water. I see her. I lost yourself for. I want to help me. You do. My dad said you could love it. You got to do. But just showing my mother. Okay. My boy. My brother like that. Come here. Come back.

[20:01] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: You tell good stories.

[20:03] ANN SMITH: My bus, my sick. Okay. Nothing to come back out. I hear. I can never get out there for my brother. Got her quick. Mama said. He said, leave it to the bell. We talk about coming to bear. No, no. Won't tell Bella, my niece. I want. Go get your teddy bear. Go get your teddy bear. Who's your teddy bear. Go get you.

[20:54] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: You got to go get your teddy bear.

[20:56] ANN SMITH: No, my niece, bow. I want myself. I'm taking up, too. I do.

[21:08] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Well, you were talking about teddy bears. Do you have a baby doll that you really love? Huh? You tell me about her. What's her name?

[21:18] ANN SMITH: My daughter can be baby. She's my son.

[21:26] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Sarah?

[21:27] ANN SMITH: No, my other baby.

[21:29] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Your other baby? Okay. So free, so sweet.

[21:42] ANN SMITH: No, no, give her a kiss.

[21:45] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: You give her a kiss. Yeah. Yeah. You're so sweet. You always tell everybody that you love them. And you pray for people and you call them your sweetheart, don't you? Yeah. Yeah. That's so special that you. You really always tell people that you love them. That means a lot. Some people don't do that, do they? But it means a lot that you're always so loving. You say, I love you. You're my sweetheart. Where you been? You always say that, huh? Where you been?

[22:24] ANN SMITH: Oh, fun. I get to ball you a day.

[22:30] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: What did you do today?

[22:31] ANN SMITH: Bowl it.

[22:32] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: You went bowling, huh? Is that what you said? Yeah. Did you go bowling today? Well, you're always the winner, aren't you?

[22:42] ANN SMITH: You win that?

[22:47] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Who won today? Oh, so you didn't win?

[22:52] ANN SMITH: No.

[22:53] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: No. You need me to wipe that off as you got your glasses?

[22:58] ANN SMITH: I watch that girl golf. I wash it.

[23:01] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: You want a Kleenex to wipe them? No, you do it when you get home, okay.

[23:05] ANN SMITH: Yeah.

[23:05] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Okay. All right.

[23:10] ANN SMITH: Mine is a software.

[23:14] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Who's so sweet?

[23:15] ANN SMITH: My niece.

[23:16] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Your niece.

[23:17] ANN SMITH: And what I tell my niece? I want to sit down. Mommy do that? No, you tell my mama about it. I take all your money. No, my niece.

[23:38] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Your niece. I don't know her. I haven't met her before.

[23:43] ANN SMITH: My girlfriend was out of my. I want to sit down. You fall.

[24:04] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Oh, you want to sit down so she doesn't fall down. Was she trying to run where she shouldn't run?

[24:10] ANN SMITH: No.

[24:19] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Okay.

[24:21] ANN SMITH: Sitting on the knee, she said, I did the fall. Oh, God. I catch my head like that.

[24:31] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: You're gonna catch her if she fell down? Yeah, the fall, yeah. That's so sweet of you to care about her and not want her to get hurt, huh?

[24:41] ANN SMITH: No.

[24:43] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: You didn't want her to get hurt? Yeah. Yeah. Um hmm. What are you grateful for in your life?

[25:07] ANN SMITH: No.

[25:10] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: The people that you live with. Yeah. It's a really nice group of people, huh? Yeah, really sweet people. Kelly and Ashanti. Who else?

[25:25] ANN SMITH: Sara.

[25:27] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Sarah?

[25:29] ANN SMITH: Yeah.

[25:30] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Sara and Janetta. Yeah. Val.

[25:41] ANN SMITH: Mm hmm.

[25:42] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. Val's always making fun stuff at the AC, isn't she? Do you have a favorite project you like to work on?

[25:51] ANN SMITH: Mm mm.

[25:52] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: No. You haven't been making any art. I bet you're gonna make some Christmas art, aren't you? Some decorations.

[26:01] ANN SMITH: Yeah.

[26:02] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. What about Halloween? I haven't heard about Halloween. Did you have fun?

[26:08] ANN SMITH: I said yesterday. I just said dies.

[26:15] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: What did you dress up as? Look at your shirt to remember.

[26:22] ANN SMITH: Do you remember Minnie Mouse?

[26:24] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Minnie Mouse? Yeah. You had on that really fun headband. Do you remember what the headband looked like? It had. We played with it before Halloween. It had sequins on it and a red. Does it have a red bow? I can't remember. Was it a red bow?

[26:44] ANN SMITH: Mm hmm.

[26:45] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. And what did the skirt look like? Do you remember what color it was?

[26:54] ANN SMITH: Green.

[26:55] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: I can't hear you with your green. Green. It wasn't green. You're pulling my leg. What color was it? What color does Minnie mouse wear? Red. It had white polka dots on it. Looked really pretty on you. You wore the red skirt with the white polka dots. I saw a picture and a red sweater. Did you wear the hands or you didn't like the hands you had before Halloween? I saw your costume and you had big Minnie Mouse hands. Did you wear them?

[27:33] ANN SMITH: Mm hmm.

[27:36] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. You had to take them off. You couldn't eat or anything with those on, huh?

[27:40] ANN SMITH: Mm mm.

[27:41] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Yeah. Yeah. Is there anything else you want to talk about?

[27:54] ANN SMITH: No.

[27:55] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: No. You've had enough. Sometimes when you're done, you're just like, I'm done now. Is that how you feel now? Sometimes when we're at the house, huh? And we're on the porch and you've decided you've had enough, you just, like, get up and go inside, huh? Is that how you feel? Well, that's okay. We can. We can say that we're finished. I want to thank you for coming down here with me and spending this time with me. I always love being with you, and it means a lot to me to get to do this with you. So thank you for.

[28:28] ANN SMITH: You are.

[28:29] ANN [NO NAME GIVEN]: Thank you so much. I love you. I love you too, my sweetheart, huh? Yeah. Well, thank you.

[28:39] ANN SMITH: Ann Pearl, other YouTube.