sometimes she would get back immediately and sometimes it would be days. i remember texting during the inauguration. she felt how she felt about that. we won t go into that. she would tell me she was doing her thing. she said, i m going to be in the city in early march, have lunch at the plaza and kick it, ha, ha, ha. that was one of her text messages. tell her about the phone calls. the phone calls never lasted longer than four minutes. you didn t know every time there was i won t say it was a 248 area code. because it was a detroit area. i would say, that must be aretha. sometimes it would show up as aretha franklin. sometimes not. sometimes the number i had for her before, i would call back and it wouldn t be there. i would have to call her asis tanl assistant. here is the new number. she didn t keep a number one she had for a long time.