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AL: Just to back up for a moment. You were just saying, we were talking when the tape was off about Celeste and Miss Stuart. You said Celeste had a very dim view of Miss Stuart?

AS: Oh yeah, she did not like her at all.

AL: What did she think of her? What did she say about her?

AS: Well, she's very restrictive and she would, she would have been very difficult to handle. Oh, my goodness, being a teenager, junior high. She would have caused Miss Stuart grief 'cause she was very outspoken. And Miss Stuart was kind of... she thought she was too restrictive.

AL: Uh-huh.

AS: Yeah, she would have been difficult.

AL: Was she difficult for her foster home, to your knowledge?

AS: I think the first couple of them, she did. I think she mentions that she was kicked out of the first couple of 'em. And then when she went to high school in Baldwin Park, she had the high school activities. She was so popular and so involved in sports and athletics and you know, she didn't like to, to study, but her social life is what saved she said, and shaped her to what she is now.

AL: What did she do as a career?

AS: She's a nurse, a registered nurse.

AL: Was that her own choice or did, I assume Miss Stuart didn't tell her to become a nurse.

AS: Oh no, because by that time she was way out and all.

AL: Right. Did you work together at all as nurses or talk about your careers?

AS: Well, we talk about our careers. She was a psych nurse and psych is not my field at all. So I said, "You be happy." And she was a psych nurse in Vegas for many years. And she loved being a psych nurse.

AL: Bet she'd be good.

AS: Yeah, she did. She talked to people and could talk them into or out of anything. Very good with patients.

AL: Uh-huh, yeah.

AS: No, psych was not my field at all.

AL: Right. Yeah, it's harder to draw pictures of the psych cases.

AS: Right, right. Yeah, very interesting, but no.

AL: Right.

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