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DG: Now, your father built a fairly large home, right?

RM: Yeah.

DG: You said similar to the one that you're living in now.

RM: Yeah.

DG: At this time. And so he must have made quite a bit of money at some of those enterprises.

RM: Well, he did. I said he was successful, but he worked hard too. The house, I think, he helped with a couple carpenters, you know, did a lot of work on that house.

DG: Did you have your own room then?

RM: Oh, yeah.

DG: Now, this Mr. Dupay was your guardian, but you were fairly young, right, at the time?

RM: Oh, yeah.

DG: Was it ever questioned because some of these ownerships were legally brought up to court or something that it wasn't really -- I mean your father was just using your name.

RM: It could have been. I don't know, but as far as I know I don't think he had any problems.

DG: So he was one of the lucky ones.

RM: Yeah, but he could have which I don't know.

DG: Now, he never tried to lease any land because the alien land law prevented that.

RM: Uh-huh, yeah. He bought it in our name through a guardianship, yeah.

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