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DG: Let's go ahead then and explain. Would you tell me a little bit more about some of the resettlement and your jobs that you had?

MH: First I worked the nursery school.

DG: Right.

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MH: That means three boys throwing a rock at each other on playground. And there is two, three years old also playing, and then I said, I went to hospital and I saw that one blind boy, somebody throw the rock came to hit -- where? I don't know, but hit the boy and then became blind. And the doctor couldn't do anything so, "Please don't throw the rock." I told that boys and then later, somebody say they are throwing rock at each other once again. So I called the boys again and then told that and then boys said, "I'm sorry," and then went back. And then third time, I said that boys, "What can I do? If you -- how can you remember each time you forget? And then somebody became blind or hurt, what are you going to do? What can I do?" And then the three boys said, "Please spank me." I said, "I never spank the people." "It's all right. My father spank me so spank me." Three boys said so. So I said okay. And then all look back and bend and so I spank. And then the boys said, "Thank you very much. Wasn't hurt." I said, "Why?" "I didn't tell you, but when my father spank me, he spank with a belt. Your spanking didn't hurt. Thank you." And then the three boys, they all said thank you and then went yard.

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