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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
In the old country?
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
No, in Montreal.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Well, th-then we're going too far ahead. I, I, was just curious about...
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Then he went to the old country, honey.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
After your mother died here. She died here in Fort Wayne?
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
My mother died in Spring Valley.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
In Spring valley?
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Mhm.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Then he went to the old country after [[?]]
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
No, no! I wouldn't go! I got married in Montreal.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
So, [[Speaking in Arab?]]
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Yeah, and I came [[?]]
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
So, he got, and he married your mother, and then he took her to the old country.
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Yeah, I, yeah and I was, I was, uh-
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
How many years after he married, the, the same year he married he must've taken her to the old country
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
The same year, yeah, because I was born in the old country.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
That was his first trip back?
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Yeah. That was his first trip back.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
And you were born?
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Yeah, I was born and he left and he came, and, and, and I was a baby. I was only a year old and my father came to this country.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
And, and your mother, when did she come back?
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Then my mother, when I was year and a half old, she followed him to, to, he uh sent for her to Montreal.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
And left you there?
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
No, no! With her, her and I came together.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Ah.
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
And then my mother couldn't stand the cold.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Ah.
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
She was delicate, you know?
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Uh-huh.
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
And in, uh, Montreal, so they sent her back to the old country when I was two years old, when I-
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Yeah. Then you stayed to do
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
We stayed and, uh, we came back 'till I was, uh, nine, going on ten when we came back again.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
You-
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
My father followed us.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Yeah, and then you and your mother came back.
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Three of us. All of us together.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
And then dad went back the third time now? Picked you up and came back?
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
No,no,no! No, you got it wrong, darling. We went to the old country, I was born.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Right. That was his first trip.
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
His first trip. Then he came by himself, and-
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Yeah, then he sent for...
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
And then he sent for me and my mother.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Right. And you came back?
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
We came to Montreal.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Right.
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
We stayed there 'till I was two years old, because my mother couldn't stand the cold, so they sent me and my mother back to the old country
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Alright.
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
My father stayed here.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Uh-huh.
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
See, that's the time he went back to Texas with my uncle.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Uh-huh.
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
So he stayed here until I was five. He stayed three more years after we went, till he saved that $500, you know, he had to save $500.
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
So he went back to the old country. And then when he went back there he stayed another four years and a half. In the old country.
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
And that's the time we came together, all three of us, and I never went back.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Then you went straight to Spring Valley.
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
No, we came when we landed, we landed Rochester, Pennsylvania, then we came to Fort Wayne, and that's the time I used to, I was telling ya, I picked coal on the railroad tracks.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Oh yeah, tell me about that.
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Well, when we-
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Rochester, Pennsylvania?
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Yeah, we-
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
[[Speaking Arab?]]
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Oh, three months, that's all I was staying in Rochester. My aunt was living there and we didn't like, he didn't like that Rochester, So he moved back to Fort Wayne.
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Why did you both pick any coal?
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