 There, my life just went around in circles. I was doing a lot of marijuana. The next winter, Billy wrote that he was coming to St. Louis to take me back to Texas and marry me. My answer was, you can come here, but I'm not going with you. But when he and his sister arrived, and after we had talked it over, all three of us until five in the morning, I had an announcement to make to my mother. She wasn't really in the mood for it.