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TI: Okay, so before we go there, so tell me a little bit about Bill. What was it, how would you describe him? What was it that interested you in him?

CH: Well, I felt like he was a, what do you call... leader, not a leader. Well, leader in a way that he makes his decisions and follow-through. I mean, he wasn't a silly guy or anything, he meant business. I think he was thinking more about how he was gonna get his brothers out and organize some kind of farming is what he was interested in mostly, so he was trying to get his brothers to join him so that they could get their parents out and go out of the Western zone and farm. That was his main concern.

TI: And when he left, first for Denver, did you know that the two of you would get married? Was that sort of the understanding?

CH: Well, yeah. When I left it was already... I mean, I was getting, I was leaving because I was getting married. They let me out as soon as I said I was getting married. But I had to prove that he was, I mean, he wasn't gonna be in care of government.

TI: On, like, welfare or something.

CH: Welfare, and that's another thing. We had to make sure that... they really checked to make sure that you're not gonna be on welfare or anything, that you're going to take care, you know, get taken care of. So I was going out to get married, and they let me out.

TI: But when he left, was the idea that you would get married when he settled somewhere?

CH: Yeah, kind of. We were kind of... [laughs]. But in those days, you don't sleep with each other before that like they do here. I mean, that was a no-no.

TI: But there was like a promise.

CH: It was a promise.

TI: That the two of you would get together.

CH: And the minute I got off the train in Spokane, we went right away to Coeur d'Alene and that day got married, so okay.

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