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MN: While you're, let's go back to this place, you said it's close to Olympic and Ninth Street? How did your father put food on the table?

BK: We didn't have food, so my sister pulled a little red wagon that I had, and we went to the Ninth Street Produce Market and they dropped me down the bins to then raise whatever vegetables were located there to see what was suitable for them to, to pick, so that was our shopping routine. We would take my wagon and my sister and I would then do the collecting and selection, and that how we got some vegetables and fruits, is... I don't remember it, but they said, "Oh yes, we did that." I said I was too little to remember.

MN: Now, you had mentioned your father also raised chickens?

BK: Yeah.

MN: But he was trained as a veterinarian, to help animals.

BK: Right.

MN: Was it hard for him to kill the chicken?

BK: Well, he was raising chickens and collecting eggs to eat, and after a while, after the chickens were older and we had need to have some meat on the table, he took the chicken, or one of the chickens, and cut its head off. And you know, you have to hold it down because it escapes, and I still remember this chicken without its head on running around the yard, and we were chasing it and chasing it and it had nowhere to go, but when a chicken has its head cut off you don't know which way it's going. [Laughs] And we're chasing it and it's kinda comical because the chicken still had a lot of energy. He's still running around. So until you could catch it again, hold it down, it was a, a riot. It was very... I remember people were chasing it. A chicken without its head. They're very energetic. I would be, too, if I got my head cut off. [Laughs]

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