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TI: Before we come to Seattle, I'm just curious, while your father was working at the sawmill, what would your mother do?

TT: Nothing. Housewife, raising kids, I guess. She had a, in fact, all the family had a vegetable garden.

TI: And do you recall any activities that your mom did with maybe the other mothers? Did they have any kind of classes or meeting type things?

TT: Not really, except get together and gossip, I guess.

TI: And how would you -- thinking about your parents -- how would you describe your father? What kind of man was he?

TT: Strict, hardheaded.

TI: And so what would be, do you have an example of what that means by being strict?

TT: They kept me in line.

TI: And so it was like that he wanted you to do certain things in a certain way and was pretty strict about that? Was there like a example, like a hobby or schoolwork or something that he would tell you certain things?

TT: No. Well, one advantage I had was I had an older brother. So as far as schoolwork and stuff, I had help from him. By the time he graduated high school, he would start working on the mill. And that was another thing, kids who lived in that area worked in the mine or sawmill. Nobody thought about going to college.

TI: How about your mother? How would you describe your mother?

TT: She was quiet, more on the quiet side.

TI: And we talked a little bit about your older brother. How would you describe your older brother? What was he like?

TT: Well the age difference, so he had his own friends that he stuck around with, age group. I stuck around with my own age group. So growing up, we weren't that close.

TI: But how would you describe him? What kind of personality did he have?

TT: Well, he was more on the quiet side, smart, smarter than me. He skipped a class. [Laughs]

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