I didn't know that he ever wore a black hat; he was a "white hat' kind of person. I never herd him use a cuss word stronger than "son of a duce," or saw him drink or smoke. (Although, Adrienne says she had seen him drink a beer with Bolly Boykin, and Mother didn’t appreciate it.) I ask him one time if he had ever been in a fight. He said, "Only one time, I jumped up on the running board of a car and hit a man through the open window." I didn't ask him what the fight was about. I wished that I had asked.

Adron Smoking.

Adron said that the only time he smoked was when he and a friend was on their way back to the ranch from Yeso, and they found someone’s month’s supply of Bull Drum laying in the road. They picked it up and smoked it; that ended his smoking career. Adron didn’t drink coffee either; one time, when he saw me drinking coffee, he said, “why don’t you drink something that will do you some good, like a glass of milk.”
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