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SY: And tell us a little bit about your family. So you had how many children?

NS: Well, I had three kids. My daughter's gone, but I still have two boys.

SY: Your two sons.

NS: Yeah, and they have their kids.

SY: Tell us their names?

NS: I don't know. Stanley, do I know Stanley here? [Laughs]

SY: Stanley's here.

NS: And Stuart, these are the only two boys I have.

SY: And Stanley's the oldest and Stuart's the youngest.

NS: Uh-huh.

SY: And tell us, can you talk about what happened to your daughter?

NS: Well, she was sick one day and she said she didn't feel good. And before you know it... we didn't know that she had cancer. But she was complaining about her stomach all the time, and so finally she went to doctor. First time they didn't know what it was, and second time they found that x-ray. Before you know it, she was gone.

SY: She was how old?

NS: She was thirty-one, huh? I thought she was thirty-one.

SY: In her thirties, anyway.

NS: Yeah, something like that.

SY: And she had a family?

NS: Oh, yes, the two boys. They're grown now. Justin and Brandon, they're my two favorite kids. But the grandma took care, brought 'em up. The baby was only three, not even four when she passed away.

SY: So Stanley and Stuart are still around and...

NS: Yes. Stanley comes around once in a while, huh, Stan? [Laughs]

SY: Are they both, are they all active in your church, too?

NS: Oh. Well, Stan is doing pretty good. Stuart is an usher, head of the usher, so he have to do that all the time.

SY: So they grew up in West L.A.?

NS: Yes, oh yes.

SY: And went to the...

NS: Yeah, Methodist church.

SY: And so they were very active as young people, too?

NS: Well, not too active, but then... well, are you, Stan? I don't know what you do. But he's, he tries to do things for the church, anyway.

SY: He's active in the church as well. So you set that example for them.

NS: Well, that I don't know, but I guess they need somebody to help, I guess.

SY: That's great. And when did you end up retiring? When was that?

NS: When I became sixty-five.

SY: So just when you became sixty-five?

NS: Yeah, I retired.

SY: And what do you do with your time now?

NS: I still go out, lunch, anything. I'm never home. I should stay home and clean house. [Laughs] I don't do that. I was out all day yesterday. I told the girls, I got to go home and clean the house. "Oh, who wants to clean the house?"

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