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This is Rebecca Perkins is the state to decide one. The iron Hill borrow history, I guess goal, our

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respiration grandma oral history project. And I'm interviewing Alan Smith, Junior, Robert Smith. Let me ask you a little bit about

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the teacher brighter Bodhi, about how she going to school in a row to row who lived in well, yes. Be doing the whole time you were a student,

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a, Hershey car, E. E. Now the teachers, well, now gravimetric methods.

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In this way you're packaging and bars. You know, all of the teachers that were in the school. And tell me how far or

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school or you get your school a wall. How far? I will say a problem. We love, maybe more labor this, how difficult was it into where?

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It was very difficult for me. Some days that we would had closed down because of snow. So obese. But it was difficult.

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Often do school class? Yeah. Mosul Dam school. Bob would be open. You know, it will take like a big snow.

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There were closing know, been so close school. But cold weather many times as we said, is who will be alcove that?

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These have little pot belly stove. If you bank, I'll call for me during the night. It takes a lot to get us though bag up

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to the proper temperature. That would be home day, they'll be Colby. So Kozol man will leave school and go over to We're at a cost Red Cross.

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And the lady that did there with the people and the levels give it won't come back in school. I mean, wherever the skill set,

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the bay where that TV there and it was it had up or we call pop valid, but he had a big wound case around it. Around the roundness though,

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in case it real hard, you know, it will the Bible, yes. They had this Kaizen is protection around. Can you describe just target

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where teachers gas that what was what was in the teacher's desk was about they were that cabinet over there? Only. They only that it will

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be there and there used to be a teacher. She's a cause it not to for homework. This and the piano used to be right over where that guy right there.

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That was the TM to be what was right in line. We had we had maybe they weren't around well, electrolyte around globes, all these on electoral, yeah.

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I can remember. George Washington's picture will be there, up there Abraham. Like a picture would be over here. It would be would call Blackboard.

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Where we do our work on that board. Was that the only place where Blackboard blackboard along here too. What did you do for

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March is bringing your mind gets hot. Here. We draw our lines. And then I can recall we used to have all the government surplus.

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The US deliver food, you know, and like be rice, canned goods as like peaches, pears or stuff like that.

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And the, the upper-class, the, the one that like young lady that were by 12 a leg. They tell us, well,

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they would prepare hierarchy like Sue Sue. Like rice or something that they would do the cooking kitchen. These be right back.

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Hey, actually bagging. Be able kitchen. The older girls would prepare hot lunches was. Now can you tell me why

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the government I don't know why that is started and I started then is stop. Why? It was, I guess it was the government surplus though.

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If they have a surplus, they would give a Judas did sue the school. Now was that doing the whole time, the whole thing?

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Oh, no, no doubt that that that probably started in my later years and close the way I would say to be sure.

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It's a wave. The wave. And it had stopped before you finished? I stop. Wait. After

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when they did the school have a library. Do you remember him? These me. It wasn't called big library.

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It was had books in it. I would classify it as a live or where they were they did textbooks or were they well,

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some are some are more textbooks. It was someone with no books, you know. What are condition to the textbook? Well, they had two or three definitely.

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Grays. Poor, fair, good. Most most alarm was player, I say with the Admin. Well, someone had been unwell use.

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Do you remember that? During her time? Two books. I can remember. Yeah. We can e-books.

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What? That at all. And got work. What could you use for your classwork? What you don't like? Paper.

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Paper. What was that like for you? I mean, how did you enjoy school? Did you enjoy doing the classwork to undo

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undo the whiskers or something? That was a favorite I used to work with. I could go. We'll play a lot too. I can use a word like Gartner defined,

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pottery, bowls and vases and animals I used. Highlight that to your current work day. I have won that prize and I'm going to have to

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weigh the left the school. And I'll know vented in Muslim, I go to weigh when students would go on

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either in or out for recreation or even just coming in. I'm not going to get. Do you remember whether there was a formation

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where the girl came to earth? How about we use line up on the steps? Be live somewhat would be on the ribosome, would be on lesson.

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We came in on recreation. What kind of activity? Father was baseball we had we had a dodge ball.

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We had in Wales, we have jumping rope. That was quite a few that we play. They don't play.

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Certainly. Yeah. When you work here, I know a couple of

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the other people talk about the airplane, talking about cups aren't always there. Okay. You have quite sure Yale. And see,

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what was the drinking water situation like? Well, we had pure water from a spoon down below. Maybe. That a quarter mob

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is what we used to be a play. Now, downward on Pitts was that and go down and B ofs plane down there that we would carry water from

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the spring bag opinion. And then you put it in I mean, you just limited in bulk of your empowered above.

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We want to go and get water out. We call it the cloacal. Back then. That was every day. I mean, a war.

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Yeah. Yeah. We haven't we haven't yet for water moves. With one leftover at the end it would be well,

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body B sound but who did they use that word? Yeah, we've worked out. What involvement did your parents you know what what to what degree

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with her parents involved? Although they were special days, although I like the last day of school, they would comment.

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Special days like we would have whoop, Christmas program. They would come and purchase their support. All these verbs, supplies, her school,

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and I think they make sure that Brooks paper, that kind of thing or the time that we would have a high I'm not sure on this, but I would say that I sent this out to us,

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apply some of these items that we needed, but I'm not sure yet, but my own papers and stuff like that. Never had to maintain

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your score, keeping your school. Craig, who was there one person ever to most of most of the time, the older boys and girls

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would clean up big editors and clean. We always want to build as a school in pretty good shape. You have any experiences from like if

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something was broken in order to get somebody to come and fix it. Yeah, we're good trustee the tone of this

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now some would if they would, they would go ahead and fix that. Was there a required you have to dress how we use it.

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We have these graph we had to address these is not like that kid on that day we wake up, most of the time we will come to the school, rest know with clean path will shorten.

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And girl with dresses me why they wanted to overhaul back in the day we had planned. Well, yeah, well, we figured it had to be cleaned with our tinker with this one,

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I find out what were some of the things that the teacher brought to the class or cell? Br are in addition to

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reading, your writing, geography, did she bring any arcs to expose students to please way that she did? Actually, activity?

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She would see would really help. Most every time our students. That's, you know, you have to be a little slow and she would know he

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would helped you a letter that he wasn't up to par. And she was very nice lady, she was wearing. His body was able to provide some extra step.

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We're a little shy or maybe numeric arguably better than he did. Did I do? It was very shy when I first came to school and know,

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I know she helped me. I hereby said that as a minister, they they thought I was there. And I'm Preet the word poor people,

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but I have done with the layouts. What do you think? Yeah. Yeah, That helped me. Yeah. I think I've already

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discussed when it came to pass, I'm going to show how well you've learned lessons from cipher thing. How frequently did you have tests?

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What kinds of ways to have them? The test that was sent out by the state, that report. It's definitely nice category

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that you like in math, a medicine, geography, and history. And then would be the almost the end of the school year.

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And you would have to pass that test in order to be promoted to the next level. It all pre-K to the studies that was given at the school.

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And it was very nice it sometime we take us half a day, they do that because we have to do so much and

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then we'll take a break and then we go back. We took of it that it takes a day, maybe three to four hours to cover that whole test that will require

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the various birthday after you got into I think of homemade roundup on the fourth to the sixth grade.

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I think the first, second way didn't happen. If you have quizzes on here. Sometimes we had to take, I have homework. I work the Enlightenment,

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back to school, to the State Senate and Spectre. That's why we call these have what you call would be

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a superintendent or something that was common to ask the teacher how well does per school was gone?

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Different questions that no. I know he would talk to us on different matters pertaining to our schoolwork and all that.

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You said there were talk to you as students? They would definitely that we have already studied or school. See if we were making

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I know sometime that would make us notice on the would-be know if we know we know what the superintendent said. Are they are they good?

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Be male or female? I know with some would mail and some was being me. I remember one man named Mr.

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Hairs that I can remember him. And most of them were all Muslim. Mistake because it was a nice guy, nice, nice, very good.

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No matter who they are. The gaps that you didn't have to be greater than God? I did.

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Are there any other special visitors to the schools? To the school do is to be I for sure now, literally help teachers.

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She would supervise. You. Teach us one more, but Hy-Vee. What about first-aid amigo administered per state of the soil,

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the teacher the teacher would be actually have to be powered by that state. I don't know. I think she did. What are some of the names you

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remember the name to procrastinate? Most of them pass away. Now, while it was Williams joseph, her name was Dorothy.

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She was 0, but now it's the Greenwich. And another one is Patricia graded quiz. She is a hominin now. He was in my class.

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Who else? Well, a couple more. That was the math class. A pass away. As soon as I can

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remember guys still listening to the most. Do you ever see them? Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. I am. In fact Dorothy.

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She was 0, but now she's a where clause. We see quite often Patsy, Patsy harm and to quite often to fill in this area.

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Yeah. Yeah. The market there. Well, yeah. Yeah. Hello, dad. With with Eurozone, this area in Glasgow, area of 1.5, the outside school.

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Do you remember what that look like? Well well, we have a three-layered played way, cause a quack and work hours a day there.

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And then we use the waste on the side where we used to play over there or here. Mostly all around the school play, you know,

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we had what was the what was the wooded area like you remember when you were here when they went

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back to the slave is the same as saying yeah. Yeah, they were the weeds. I pay the same tribe. That was the driveway about the sign, yeah.

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Like I go around low. What can you tell about that? Remember that was nearby and he said when he went to how

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well the railroad was about, I'd say survey for miles from where I live, their home place. And in fact there that,

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that that station called the worm. I'll probably use these to have where he's working area was in that area.

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And that's where we'll leave it as well. We catch the train and then we'll just learn a Hollywood to train up their loan today. The training that we call

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gone score and the training that we caught come on back and update the only trait that would stop there.

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Here. Okay. Here is the glue that good. These maybe 89 mile would say. It is as a place called him.

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Wow. Is it now please call my own. That was what we call it. The paint is on your Delaware and allowing the world so that i

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or marijuana or their partner here and no, it's not haploid and that therefore, you have anything that I'm thinking of, anything that I might not have

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asked you or Well, this may say how one way I can remember. I don't know what greater than us. Maybe maybe the gray color.

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They Lady little ears. The OH, at a time. Can we move less body core? Was cool.

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Yeah. I think well, maybe I'll leave 303030 mile. I remember one. Reset. Our show off to the rest of the key.

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They don't play well as the wax is. And will be Superman here. Lift up. Bodies, caught it as dark data. For don't like, I knew I could

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try and look good in front of the kid on the playground. I kept those recoil. I get here. They are door.

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And she said, Oliver, these call me. However, over one step here inside, he said, if I hit U again, gone a there, shake my car, I will give

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you a fair warning of your life. As he said, You're going to be restricted from having any reserves for the next week. The HashSet here,

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set it here for a whole week. While our data plane. Because I try to show that. I never forgot that I never I

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wanted to show off no more. School. Kids were they tease me every day. Bye. Hey guys, you got caught. By that. God. Had never forget that.

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But she was a nice teacher, very, very, very good teacher. Teacher. That's probably the last, I want to say that we have a more quotes

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that I think I'm happy now, but I think it's great that you are more Okay. Well, then I'll turn it over to Andrew.

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Clarification question for you, your probabilities with the exhausted when people get into the anecdotal. Here, am I still on here? Github?

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I find them at the time switching gears. You started talking that your family and my mind, But you said that

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it sounds as if you came back from the Korean War. I got married after yeah. No, no, no. I got my

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I graphed it. I got led. A step town with no dissemble. Yeah. I'll actually I was there when I when I when it serves the step time when I can you

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Baghdad the summer on a furlough. I got married. I got married in 1951. And I was curious. Your wife your proceed from revenue?

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No, she was found muon a little place called pseudo Hill Merlin. I would say at least maybe clinic law miles. Well to church activities,

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you know, matter to that. I'm letter joy, one somewhere when she came to live with my mom quite often miss out.

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I hate the most worthwhile. Anyway, conducting your children. Oh, wow. I had one I had two children.

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Born boss laughter. I came high, one born before the golden service. And then I had another wife

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got pregnant on on that first furlough, I had an aggressive head after I KML service. And when he came back and the service, did you live with your mother?

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Yeah. Where do I live? I live in a trailer. I lived in a trailer next to my home plate. Well, it's right on and get

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the trailer had a kitchen where you make with them? Fully equipped? Yeah. Yeah. How many years were you there when?

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I was there, about maybe 56 years. Then I I my I moved into the home, please after Mao Lu and build a home of our

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own, I'm going to do though. My parents were still my mother. My mother died in 45, and my father, he would marry and he

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lived up the up the hill from where? Low homepage. Homepage. Very much past that your children

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and the poor children went to school? I am quite sure that my two oldest girls oh, wow. Yeah, I believe it was.

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But I know my youngest daughter and my son. They they elevated they went to they do they went with the Glasgow questionnaire. But I'm quite sure I'm quite sure my

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daughter's want to save them in the last year. Yeah, maybe they were the last to leave. Your calendar period should be conquer.

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She might be an issue.