In those days before crack, Mrs. Carter said, she and her daughter were friends.

Mrs. Carter said she did not know where the boy's father was.

He has not gone to school this year, Mrs. Carter said.

Asked about what her husband had said, Mrs. Carter laughed.

Mrs. Carter did not include that amount as income on a joint return she filed.

Mrs. Carter said her daughter did not believe it was a disorder and never took the girl to a doctor.

Mrs. Carter will spend the day with her husband and three other children.

The $11,000 mark came and went with Mrs. Carter still in the competition.

Mrs. Carter has been a trustee of the museum since 1989.

Mrs. Carter died in 1903, willing the house to her only child.