This is Bert with Walt’s mother Pauline who is a nurse. Decades before, when Walt was only five, Pauline sought a rare divorce from her husband following a bout with a patient-related infection and influenza. Ridden with grief and guilt, Pauline propelled away from her son and her support system and made amends in an…
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The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
Some people were born to fight the good fight. Remember Walt’s mother Pauline, the nurse? When her son was just five-years-old she comes down with a patient-related infection and maybe even influenza—so one day her parents show up to remove Pauline, bed and all, and return her to her childhood home across town to recuperate….
The Family Album Straight Up With A Twist.
The man on the left is Walter and he’s a machinist at a fledgling radio company—RCA—and that’s his wife Pauline. Maybe some midwife forgot to slap Walter’s hiney when he entered the world, because he’s kind of a dullard. Pauline is not—she was a nurse during World War 1 but now that she’s married to…