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RP: You were growing up in Venice; was the community mixed racially?

AS: Yeah, Venice... I came when I was tenth grade. My girlfriend, she grew up there, she know, but Venice treated us nice, because some of the kids there were seniors and we had to leave, they gave them the books and gave them their certificate, Venice High School, but my sister-in-law, she went to L.A. High School, and they didn't do that. But later on you read about, they gave them their certificate. But Venice High School, the teachers, we were kind of a little town. It was a little town when we first moved there. It was Venice. But, no, it was really, they were, we were treated really nice. We were, in fact, Mr. Turney, G.O. Turney, he was the gym teacher. He, we left a lot of the things with him. My brother had guns and things, so he took care of all that for us.

RP: When you were in camp?

AS: Yeah, for my brother. And things that we didn't want missing. 'Cause my house, my folks' house was there, but we knew people were gonna break in. They didn't really ransack it or anything, but the teachers and all at Venice High School, they were, we were the good kids of Venice High School.

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