Dear Diary,

                All of this is too much for me; taking care of the kids, cleaning, cooking, planting out back, picking cotton, & being a wife.  I just need a break from all of this, I’m too young. Making money out here is ridiculous, 100 pounds of cotton is just 50 cents & only 70 cotton dolls equals a pound, so me & George have to wake up at dawn and try our best to pick 7,000 cotton dolls. But through the mist of it at least the family and I are staying strong.