 But he wasn't an engineer. Miss Haver said you grew up on a farm like me. I said he didn't have a degree. And besides, it was rightly my mama who gave me lots of technical magazines. Science and invention, popular mechanics. I thought you said your mama died giving birth to you. Not right in birth. Not exactly right then. After. Uh-huh. A little after. When you're old enough to read magazines. Can I take that liquor now like you said was okay? Wait. What? Just explain it all again one more time.