"I and a girlfriend roomed together. Above the restaurant. There was an apartment-like. Actually, nothing where you could cook or something because you'd get your meals down in the, in the restaurant. But I remember one time..."

I've done quite a lot of sewing. My mother sewed, of course, so we had an old treadle sewing machine. And I think the first thing, maybe, I sewed was taking apart some of my dad's old shirts and making shirts for my brother.

"But I never really drove much because I, I babysat a couple of children that also worked for the Carnation Milk Company. And I didn't like to take kids in the car when I hadn't been driving very much."

"My grandfather must have been quite sick with the tuberculosis because he, in the hospital, he didn't come home again. And we couldn't go in the room where he was. We could go to the door."

"Trudy come up with a bear cub foot, plus a leg off, off of the bear. It was good meat. But, oh the bear cub, Doug took it to school for show and tell. The bear paw."

"There was another lady in the room with me. Another expectant mother… We saw them making people walk to the delivery room, and I can remember making the remark ...'I'm not walking in there! They're gonna wheel me in.'"

"You should have seen my dad driving by the house with the tractor! He was just smiling from one ear to the other. It was a really good turnabout for him."

"Of course my mom was, well, she didn't have transportation, but she got some of the neighbors to drive her down there. And then he told her. He told her. So I didn't get a chance to do that."

"And there was a copper boiler full of rinse water from washing clothes. Because my mother always saved the rinse water to wash the floors with before she—but there's supposed to be a cover on it..."

"Jay would come up and we'd sit and do crossword puzzles and stuff like that. Nothing, nothing out of line. But he got wind of that, you know, he didn't like that... But he wasn't there to keep me company or anything."

"So my neighbor, actually, actually at the time, she was my friend, as well, and that was Grandpa's former wife… she volunteered—this was before she was real ill—she volunteered to drive, to teach me how to drive."

"We had cows and pigs and turkeys and chickens… and a weasel that used to come try and get the chickens! Did I say we had horses? And we had cows, yeah. I can remember my dad milking the cows…"

"Dorothy and I… When I'd go stay with her at the farm, maybe for about a week or so—they had a big dog. And we were playing in and out of the granary that was, didn't have the grain in it yet…"

"I never felt badly to my mother for that because even then I could kind of realize that she would be blamed—of course she was blamed, but they didn't, they wouldn't… I don't know. I didn't try to understand it."

"I remember a time we were supposed to recite a nursery rhyme. This was to the whole group. And my cousins in front of me turned around and whispered to me, "Say the one about the barber, barber, shave the pig..."

"It was at the end of the day, and there was nobody left in the waiting room, except Grandpa. And he took the x-rays, and sure enough, there were two. And, and so I said, 'Well, can my husband come in and look at this?'"

"Every now and then a chicken got to the dinner table. I remember that. That was quite a—kind of an inhumane way of killing a chicken, I think. I know they used to catch 'em, grab 'em by the neck and swing 'em around."

"We saw this bear on the side of the road, and I thought—probably told you that—I thought it was tame. I was feeding it cake! Eek! Curt was in the backseat just screaming. Barb too."

"Like I say, it varied from time to time, but the regulars was one, two, three, four. And when my cousins lived in the area, it was five, six or seven of us. Otherwise, there weren't many people, many kids in the school."

"I told you about my dresses being so long, and the bloomers underneath, and my mom, she changed that. She shortened my dress and...the length of the bloomer, so I could probably bend over without showing them."

"I remember Chuck saying when he got there, he looked at what they said that his mom was. And he said, "That's not my mother." He thought, he thought it didn't even look like her anymore from, evidently, the heart attack."

"...it weighed heavy on her all this time and that's why she finally—when she was in the TB sanatorium, she'd become a Christian, and she just felt this was something she had to tell. Just to clear her own life, I guess."

"I worked part of the time when Barb was little… Oh! I could catch a, a bus if I got out there in time, but I didn't always. So I would walk, and carry her a lot of the time because, because she couldn't walk fast enough!"

"You could turn a car around between the houses, I think. But, it was better, actually. They each had their own house, Mom and Grandma. And—but you had to be careful because Grandma had nothing to do in her little house…"

"I wasn't always comfortable driving at first because I wasn't used to it, and I hadn't really been allowed to. So, but I felt more—not so trapped, you know, when I could. Because I used to have to walk to the store."

"I didn't want to bother the neighbors, so I took a bus downtown to where I worked, and it was in a hotel. So I was in the lobby and I called her from there. That's when she told me that Dad had had the accident."

"Oh, we used to go ice-skating in the winter time because the river would freeze over good. In fact, my dad—my dad was a pretty good skater, as a matter of fact… He had skates with the shoes on them."

"But we weren't allowed to go in with her. She wasn't able to come down and visit in the visiting room. For quite a while. We'd have to go stand out in the middle of the yard and look up to her window, to talk to her."

"Helen used to tell me how Grandpa would, she would, he would sleep on the couch in the same room where her bed was. But, a lot of times she woke up and she could hear him crying. So it was hard for him when she passed away."

"One time, coming home from school, she decided she was going to be my, to act like she was my friend. She grabbed me by the arm and wouldn't let me go. Walked me across the street, and across the street was the dentist's office..."

"I was working in Fargo, North Dakota as a waitress... It wasn't a real high class restaurant. It was more like a cafe... Some of the clientele were—especially the younger boys—they'd just do things to irritate you."

"The dog used to, just to love to come in the house and get behind the door right by the furnace, and my sister—the dog was sleeping and she was crawling and she crawled and happened to grab a hold of his tail..."

"The vacation we took most of the time, practically all the time, was to the State Park at Curlew. Tent Camping—I loved tent camping. And fish, of course. That was the main thing there, was the fishing."

"You know, they didn't wear panties; they wore bloomers. And dresses long. And she had this pair that were getting all faded, so she decided she would, you know, dye them a darker pink. Well, they turned out kind of red."

"His mom and dad came down to, Grandma and Grandpa Anderson came down to, to Fargo and we met them at a park. And… But he didn't, they didn't know about Barb then..."

"This sounds horrible, but it isn't really. They would put the pig's head in—after they had taken all the hair and scraped the skin and everything—put it in the copper boiler on the coal and wood stove. Let it boil for an hour."

"She came running up to me, and she said, "Come on down!..." So I went down, and, and she had a mirror and she was putting it up in front of—Helen was his first wife's name—her face, and there was nothing, nothing."

"She was 11 months old when the twins were born. Yeah… they were each given a chore in the morning. One would warm the bottle. Barb would start breakfast. And Clint—he hated this—used to get to change the diaper..."

"They lived there all the time, at Grandma and Grandpa's …which probably wasn't the best thing. Especially since they weren't all that fond of my mom to begin with. And so she, she was more like a hired person there, I guess."

"Anyhow, this one side of the road, one side of Aurora Avenue that we lived on. It was a pretty busy street, this one street that ran down. And I didn't have, I didn't have any fenced in yard or anything like that..."

"He, he and a friend would go down by Tub Lake. And they were walking around and one time Mike, Mike said—it was kind of marshy in there. But Mike started just running, just away, and yelling, 'Bees! Bees!'"

"I think Ray for, at first was working as kind of like a traveling salesman? I know he worked in Jamestown and Bismarck... And I remember him driving a—oh! I know. He worked for a milk company. Carnation Milk Company."

"Of course, I was embarrassed. But she, I, I just—when Barb got home, I put her in the little red wagon and we'd go downtown and I'd do what I had to do. And, of course, all the girls my age were always curious…"

"We met Dave the pastor when he stopped to see Grandpa when he had heart surgery… So he stopped by and Dad was, Grandpa was talking to him and he asked him, 'Well, Dave, how do you handle opening day of fishing?'"

"I called my mom. My mom is a twin, and my grandmother hand several—well, several? I don't know… Three? I'm not sure how—three or four. Maybe three sets of twins? Maybe more. I don't remember. But anyway, I called my mom..."

"And then another—they were pickin' on him, it seems like! There was an empty lot across the street, and they came, a couple of boys came across a beehive or something. Bees on the ground, a bees' nest…"

"Our house used to be part of an old hotel. In fact, when we moved in there, yeah, there was a couple, a mother and her little girl and husband, occasionally, living in the apartment upstairs. Well, my dad put them out…"

"We'd maybe run up, run up one side of the bank and slide down the other, and we got to school. Finally—I think when I finally decided I was not gonna wear those long underwear anymore, I froze my knees a few times."

"I can remember when Barb was born. There was one gal from my hometown, she was a nurse there. And, ooh, I was really in a lot of pain with the delivery, and I can remember her saying, 'Oh, it can't be as bad as that!'"

"I know when I, whenever I've missed church, I've always had everybody come up afterwards, especially after I missed two Sundays in a row, and they all know that I have cancer, so..."

"Her name was Dorothy. Eckman. And I used to go stay at her, with her parents. Just for visiting, you know, in the summertime… She had epilepsy. It seems to me that they called it Saint Vitus' Dance or something. I'm not sure..."

"We, we rented a house down on Maplewood Drive in Burien, and we were married there, at home. And my—I had a friend that lived in Mountlake Terrace, and she was our bridesmaid."

"I think she was probably seven… No, eight or nine, maybe. Anyway, she came home from school and she was so sick that she just laid down on the bed, and, and she died! Just like that. And it was tuberculosis."

"They came back—they were living in Hawaii and they came back here because he had contracted tuberculosis. So... And they come to our house. Yeah. In Burien. And I was very uncomfortable with that…"

"My Dad, he would—this fellow at the restaurant that worked for the owner, he had told my mom of a place you could go down in Minneapolis and go and have an abortion. Yeah. And my dad thought that would have been ok…"