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TI: Kay, when you think about your life, your life has been so interesting. You lost your mother when you were young, you had to help raise twins, you went through these camp experiences. When you think about your life, what are the important things to you? What's important when you think about life and what's important, how would you answer that?

KI: I figure I did the best I could do. I think I was a good daughter, you know, I think my dad should be proud of me.

TI: And so being a good daughter means a lot to you.

KI: It does.

TI: And if you were to give advice to, say, your children, what would be important to say to them? What's important that should be important to them?

KI: Oh, I would say education is very important. And so I think every child, when they are grown up should go to college, get an education. That would be the best thing.

TI: And when you think about even future generations, your grandchildren, education is important, but what else would you say to them? Is there anything else?

KI: I don't know. Sometimes they like to talk about how I live my life, you know, they talk about when they were growing up, how Grandma did this and this and this. But no, I think they're smart. The children are smart nowadays. They know what they want, and... whose child is it? Is it Dale's child wanted to become a pharmacist? And I was surprised she wanted to be a pharmacist. Where'd she get that? [Laughs]

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TI: I have one other thing. So we talked about your first son, George, can you talk about your other children? Besides George, I know there's Dale...

KI: And Gerald.

TI: And Gerald. So you have three sons.

JS: And a daughter.

KI: And I have two daughters.

TI: Two daughters, that's right.

KI: Sherry and Irene.

TI: Okay, so there are five, five children. Okay, yeah, I just wanted to establish that. [Interruption] Well, Kay, thank you so much for doing this interview. This was, again, I learned so much by hearing stories from different people, and yours in particular. Because I think it's really hard, or I think it's interesting having twin sisters and then also raising a child through all this. So thank you so much.

KI: Oh, well, thank you.

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