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BK: If you could kind of transport yourself back to the time that you had to pack up the things. Do you remember what kinds of things you felt that you had to take with you, as you knew you were leaving on this next journey?

JT: Well I, there wasn't really anything really dear to me that I wanted, that I could take with me. And all the things, now that I think about it, my Shirley Temple dolls and my games and whatever, oh, scrapbooks that I collected. I wish now those scrapbooks instead of being scrapbooks of movie stars I wish I could have, would have kept more a journal type thing of my life. [Laughs] But it was so insignificant at the time, that, you know, who wants to write about what you do every day. But when we were youngsters we used to collect or cut out pictures of our favorite movie stars and have our Shirley Temple dolls, and my bicycle, and those are the things that I was mostly concerned about. Bicycles and toys, skates and things like that. And I think when we were growing up in that time, we were babied so much and since I was the youngest in the family, I was never, never entered any family conversations. And I never, I could do whatever I want and I wasn't very disciplined. So I really didn't have anything significant that I would treasure so much, and except everything, and I tried to put everything I could into my suitcase. But...

BK: Do you remember a particular item that you took with you?

JT: You know, I really don't, I really don't remember anything. I can't remember a thing that was really that was precious to me. And I think I need a kleenex. [Laughs]

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