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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
He started out from Canada, if you please.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Montreal?

[00:31:50]
{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Montreal!

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Walking!

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
And?

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Of course it took him many months.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Ya know?

[00:31:58]
{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
But he walked, all the way from Canada, to Fort Wane, then out west to Texas.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
T-t-to [[all the way to?]] Texas? I-I know he got to Denver, he used to tell me the story about Denver.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Yeah. Yeah, he got up there. And they walked, but later...

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Where did they sleep?

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Oh they slept? I'll tell you how they slept. They asked people. Lady...

{SILENCE}

Sleep...

{SILENCE}

And then they show her the merchandise, ya know? Give her merchandise. And a lot of times they slept in hay-lofts. In barns. That was...that was the main thing.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
[?] you said he slept in an outdoor toilet?

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Oh many times they've, they slept- now my father said they used to sleep in barns a lot.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
And school houses.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
And school houses. School houses, that was their...

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Favorite place.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
That was their favorite place

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{SPEAKER name="Thomas Cory"}
Do you know the story [[Speaking Arab?]] when he slept in that [[Speaking Arab?]]

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
No...

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
[[Speaking Arab?]]


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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
No I don't. The story I know about was when he took my aunt Selini out selling, and, uh, that was out of Fort Wayne. They gave, they put up a suitcase for her, you know, to sell. She was his first cousin so [?] was responsible for him, but I'm not. ya know? And [[?]] first cousin was just the same as a brother.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
I mean no different with them people. So they set out, they took a train. Uh, they, they'd make a route for themselves, you know. So many times that they were gonna hit, they were gonna go to south. So they went out and uh, she... then they walk back to Fort-

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