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AI: Well, it sounds like you spent so much time at the library. You were very studious. What kinds of... had you started thinking about plans for after graduation, what you would be doing or possibly college?

RT: I think that we were all expected to go. I think that they thought that we were all capable, and so I think my parents just had that expectation that we should go to college.

AI: And that somehow financially they would make it possible.

RT: Yeah. I don't know how in the world they ever did it, considering the situation that they were in. But in my case, my two aunties -- they keep cropping up in the picture, don't they? But my two aunties had moved to Minneapolis, and they had a place there. And so, my parents decided that I could go live with them and go to school in Minneapolis. And that's how I ended up at the University of Minnesota.

AI: So in your senior year, you had applied for college to go there?

RT: Uh-huh, yes. I guess so. I ended up there. And I don't know if it was that much of a hassle. It could be I applied after I got there. All I know is that I was going to go there.

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