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MINNIE: Oh, yes, my Uncle Robert. I remember him very much. And--well, he's--that's been--Uncle Robert, I don't know--that's been about ten--he's been dead about ten years or so or more, that--ten--let me see-it was when the park--Well, he's been dead about fifteen years

MRS STARR: Did you ever see him paint?

MINNIE: No, I never did see him paint. I just only saw the paintings that he did.

MRS STARR: What did he do for a living?

MINNIE: Well, I don't know what Uncle Robert did. He wasn't able to do too much work. But-- Just work about on the jobs, you know, in the common labor. It's--so--that's all in life. But there wasn't none of them professional--to get up in the jobs and (unintelligible)-- so they just did common labor.

MRS STARR: Yes.

MINNIE: Like that.

MRS STARR: Yes. But your first step-father--do you remember him?

MINNIE: Oh, yes. I remembered him a little bit. I was very small and--

MRS STARR: Did you live in the house with him?

MINNIE: Oh, yes, live in the house with him. But--he went off to work and stayed and come back home sick and soon died.

MRS STARR: Oh--he died? Your first step-father died?

MINNIE: Oh, yes. Uh-huh. First step-father, yes, he died.

MRS STARR: And then your second step-father--do you remember him?