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NG: So that's where he, my dad was born, 'cause that's where they were living.

SY: So they lived there for a while. I assume it's, do you know what his father did?

NG: I think, well, he was like a migrant too, 'cause see, they, he says they worked in Morgan Hill and Salinas and Hollister and Watsonville, so he must've followed the crops, the father.

SY: And you don't know how he died, how either of them died?

NG: No. Everything is, like, sudden.

SY: They were both very young.

NG: He was six. No, at six he was traveling all over. That's right.

SY: Your father, this is?

NG: This is what she kept saying, they, since they kept, they kept moving, that he kept repeating the second grade for many years. [Laughs]

SY: Your father. So he never got a real good, well, he might've gotten a better education. [Laughs] Was he, did he, was he an educated, did he go through high school, do you know?

NG: I don't know if he finished. He went to automotive school. That's where he got his mechanic's training, but he never had reunions. Maybe he never finished high school. Could be.

SY: Right. They traveled, especially if they traveled around a lot.

NG: Yeah.

SY: And especially if his dad died when he was...

NG: He was ten.

SY: Ten.

NG: So I don't know, he may not have. Yeah, 'cause it doesn't say.

SY: And so when he, by the time he met your grandfather on your mother's side --

NG: Yeah, it said he did go to primary school but ended in eighth grade.

SY: Ended in eighth grade. So assuming that he moved to Southern California at some time -- to meet your grandfather on your mother's side, right?

NG: Yes.

SY: Then he, by then he was eighteen, you said?

NG: Yeah. First time my grandfather met him he was eighteen.

SY: Eighteen. So he was working? Do you know if he was working?

NG: I, well, I think he was looking for work and I think my grandfather found him a job, and that's, maybe that's where they started, they established their relationship.

SY: And your grandfather was probably working still as a farmer, in the farming?

NG: Yes, all of them, always. And my dad too, at that time.

SY: So they, so then he met your mother and they were married --

NG: Well, many years later, 'cause at twenty-six or twenty-seven he comes back.

SY: He came back.

NG: Or he didn't, he didn't, the person found him -- I mean the go-between -- and then hooked them up together.

SY: Right.

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