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SY: And the change from being a farm girl to going to camp, was that something that you were glad that you...

NS: Well, in a way, yes, but you know, 'cause I didn't think it was that hard in farm. Because my father raised flowers, so I helped mostly doing the flower work. So it wasn't that hard.

SY: So your childhood was not that terrible.

NS: No. No, I'm mostly cooking. [Laughs] That was my life. Cooking for the big family. I started from when I'm twelve years old, little bit younger than that, I guess. Mama put me into charge. Oh, boy, sometimes they'd complain about my cooking, I'd say, "Okay, then you have to cook," and they shut up. [Laughs] But they ate it all up. They never saved any. They ate everything up, so it must not have been bad.

SY: Well, unless you can think of something we didn't talk about, which --

NS: I don't know what you want me to tell you.

SY: I know I have to rethink of questions, but anything in your life that we missed?

NS: Such as what?

SY: I'm looking at my notes. I think we...

NS: You mean having Stanley? [Laughs] He was a bad boy. No. I was happy when I first had him. Oh, my gosh, I barely had him... in a taxi, my pregnancy's so fast, I mean, the deliver, I thought I'll never make it to the hospital, but I finally made it. And boy, as soon as I went to the hospital, I had him, just like that. The nurse said, "Oh, my gosh." I'll never forget that. She was holding him. [Laughs]

SY: That's the way you do it.

NS: I was going, we had to go on a taxi, and I was holding my stomach like this, and I couldn't hold it anymore. By the time I got off, oh, I thought I was gonna have it right there. But the nurse, they brought the chair, so I rode on that, what do you call it, those long chair thing. And as soon as they put me in my room, I had him. I tell you, the nurse couldn't wait, said, "The baby's out already," and the nurse was holding the baby to me. [Laughs]

SY: And you would have never made it to the operating room.

NS: No, uh-uh. Hope they didn't charge me. I forgot. [Laughs]

SY: That's a wonderful story to end, okay, Nancy?

NS: Well, I tell you, he sure came fast.

SY: Well, it sounds like you, maybe from your father doing all those deliveries...

NS: Yeah, I guess so. But my three pregnancy was easy, I don't know. It just seemed like I didn't have a hard time like other people say, "It's hard to have a baby," but I never did.

SY: I wish we could bottle your health.

NS: Yeah.

SY: We have to find out the secrets to your health.

NS: Yeah, thank God that God gave me my good health, so I can't complain. I'm really fortunate to have my good health. Like I say, I never catch cold. Knock on wood, I better not say that, might catch cold. But I don't really know what cold is. And I don't know what flu is, I never had a flu. Lot of people suffer with flu, what is that?

SY: Yeah, I wish we could figure out what the secret is.

NS: I really don't know. God gave me this health, so I don't know. You have to ask God, I guess.

SY: Okay, we'll have to do that. Thank you so much, Nancy, this has been...

NS: Well, I hope you got things out of me that you could at least get something out of it.

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