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MY: So anyway, we're coming to the point in my life that I had a really kind of a very abrupt wakeup call when... I was having trouble with my lungs most of my life, you know, because of congestion. I always kind of attributed it to allergies, to different substances in the air and so forth. And one day when we were in Sierra Madre, after we were there a few years, the drapes that were in the house, we were going to take them down to get a new set of drapes that we were going to order. And I probably should have let -- they were just sitting up there for the longest time -- that you know, I hadn't been very diligent about vacuuming the drapes or anything, they just became very dusty, I guess, and so because I bought these, new set of drapes I was taking them down and I guess it was very, very dusty, so I had a respiratory attack. I just... I couldn't breathe, and my kids were still home. And my little children, of course, they weren't in school yet -- they weren't, hadn't gone to school yet, it was very early in the morning, and Jeni was about twelve, I think, at the time. And so, and I couldn't talk, you know, I could barely talk to tell Jeni, "Call Daddy." So she called Yosh and then Yosh told her, "Well, call the emergency" -- at that time they didn't have 911 I think, so he told her to call the fire department or the police department, I don't know what number... Jeni was just, I was really proud of her because she had the presence of mind to call Yosh and follow his instructions and then she called, called the fire department, because they came with the oxygen and so forth.

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