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DG: So what are your earliest memories of your father's work and so forth?

RM: When we were living on that oyster station, you remember certain things, but...

DG: Did your mother help your father?

RM: Yeah, oh, yeah. She was a worker, yeah.

DG: Where did you play?

RM: Oh, we played in the -- I remember Father used to make boxes shipping oysters, and I used to put them on the ground and play in them.

DG: Out of wood?

RM: Yeah, I can picture.

DG: Well, the picture that I have in my head is just like one building on these pilings. Did you have to play inside the building or could you go outside at all?

RM: Well, there was a platform outside and a workshop.

DG: And your mother never worried about you falling in?

RM: Well, my sister fell in and it was just lucky that Father saw clothes there floating around and just nick of time saved her, yeah. Few more minutes she'd have been gone. Yeah, it was that close.

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