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MINNIE: I just said--
MRS STARR: You just said you were eighteen? 
MINNIE: Yes. I had to say I was eighteen before I could get married. I wasn't but sixteen. Sixteen on Saturday. Got married the next Wednesday. And of course I do not regret it. Whatever. Because I had a lovely husband. And as I foretold you yesterday, everything-- I tell them when my last baby was born. I had four boys. I called him my boy because I had to take care of him like a boy. 
MRS STARR: That was your husband? 
MINNIE: Yes. That was my husband. And--
MRS STARR: Did you ever have any daughters? 
MINNIE: None whatever. No daughters. My first baby died. It was a boy. And--so I have never had anything at all-- My last baby was born, my husband named him Sadie. He just declared it was going to be a girl. He wanted a girl awful. But-- So he named him Sadie. So he come and we had to change his name to George. You see, all three of my children, Mr Pembroke Jones named them. And they are named for those Wall Street millionaires. And--
MRS STARR: Which Wall Street millionaires? Do you know which ones? 
MINNIE: Oh-- Know the mens--?
MRS STARR: That they were named for. That your children were named for. 
MINNIE: Do I know the--? Did I know them? I've only seen-- I've seen two of the men. Of my David--David Barnes