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BY: So you were the youngest of seven children. You said that you were pretty spoiled. Were you close to, say, Frank, who was your next oldest brother, you said he took care of you a lot. Were you, the two of you very close then?

MK: Yeah. I wasn't close, but my sisters were close to each other, and I never was. Because the closest one was six years older, and Frank always was with me.

BY: So you were good friends with Frank, but you didn't...

MK: No, they never...

BY: Although they fought over you, it sounds like, the older sisters, fought over you when they dislocated your arm?

MK: Oh, yeah, so I must have played (a lot with them), but other than that, I never associated (with them).

BY: So here you are the youngest of seven kids. Did you have any responsibilities as a child, like things that you had to do? Your chores or anything like that, that you can recall?

MK: No, not at the house. Oh, I counted the sheets every week, the dirty sheets for the laundry to take to a commercial laundry.

BY: Oh, okay.

MK: So I did things like that.

BY: Okay, all right.

MK: There was even a small house on the property behind our house, that there was a house, a small house with a couple of rooms, that he leased out monthly.

BY: So lots of tenants then.

MK: Yeah.

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