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TI: So, Frank, let's get started, but before we go back to Poston, I forgot to ask, when you were in, like Piedmont, where did you guys live? I mean, so Piedmont --

FH: We lived in their house, where we worked, where they worked.

TI: So this was a, so this was a fairly well off neighborhood?

FH: Yes, it was.

TI: And so describe your living quarters when you were in Piedmont.

FH: Well, a room, I guess a regular bedroom. It was always a regular bedroom. In one place in Piedmont I had a bedroom and a bathroom, separate, above the garage.

TI: And when you say a bedroom and bathroom, was this something that you shared with your parents?

FH: No, the bedroom and bathroom were separate for me.

TI: Wow, that's, that's pretty fancy.

FH: Which was pretty nice, yeah.

TI: And your own bathroom too.

FH: Yes, yes. But otherwise we'd share a bathroom.

TI: And your parents would have their own separate bedroom?

FH: Bedroom, yeah. I had my own bedroom.

TI: So they were pretty nice, nice living arrangements.

FH: Yeah.

TI: Okay. And then from there we --

FH: Well, that was part of the reason they'd take the job, because they had some arrangement for that.

TI: And then in terms of food, so would you...

FH: Eat what they had.

TI: So pretty much the same food that they had.

FH: Yeah.

TI: And so would these families have, like a cook?

FH: Part of the time, yes, their cook. Most of the time, like a lot of the time my mother would cook, but a number of places they had cooks separate.

TI: Okay, good.

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