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BK: While you were growing up in Wenatchee, can you remember back, and what your house was like in Wenatchee?

MH: I know that -- this one always makes me laugh -- I was born at 401 Miller Street, and I've looked at the map, and that address is still there. My dad had, we had a corner lot, and Mother always had chickens, and she always had vegetables, and she always had flowers. But during the Depression they lost their laundry. And Dad was working for a Studebaker company as janitor, and the boys were all going to high school. My sister was married at that time. In fact, my sister took me to school for the first day.

BK: And so, was your mother then working, also?

MH: No, my mother never worked until she came to Seattle, and she didn't work very long, even then. She always was at home.

BK: Right. What do you remember back at that time, in terms of the family, living in the family house? What was it like?

MH: Oh, I know I used to... we lived on this corner lot, my brothers all had friends, but I was with my mother a lot. I think about when I used to come home from school, and she'd sit in a chair and act like she was sleeping or something, and I'd say, "Mom, wake up, wake up." I know my sister liked records, and we had a lot of records, and Mom used to crank up the phonograph and play me records, and I'd say, "Not that one, not that one." And so, she'd start with another one, and never complained, and we'd sit and do that when we were together a lot. I remember her cranking up the old victrola and playing for me. So, I was real close to Mom.

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