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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Well anyway [[Speaking Arab]] He, he, he had left because of the Druze-

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
And his mother didn't see him.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
No, he came to Fort Wayne.

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

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Yeah, he came to Fort Wayne.


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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Who did he know in Fort Wayne, why did he pick Fort Wayne?

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Well, they, they were coming to Fort Wayne because, uh, there was a man there by the name of Salem Bshara, Salem Bshara grandfather.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
All over the place I've heard everybody mention Salem Bshara.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Yeah, well they came because, uh, over there he had a store and he started-

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
How did your, how did your father know about Salem Bshara?

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Er, because he had somebody in, uh, New York this Mr Vashera, had, uh, this Mr Abeily used to be an, uh...

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Interpreter.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
He was an interpreter and he was in immigration office.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
And he asked the people 'You like to go to Texas or you like to go to Fort Wayne Selma Bshara?' You know.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
and most of 'em, because Fort Wayne was closer, you know, they-

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Who, who is [Speaking Arab]

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
No. He's from Dahr Ahmad. [[Arab?]]

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Dahr Ahmad..

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
That's about a couple of miles [Speaking Arab?]]

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Mm.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
[Speaking Arab]

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
[[laughing]]

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Yeah, [[Speaking Arab]], yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Well, that's what I didn't know. Did he come with anybody, [[Speaking Arab]]

{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Well most likely they used to come, they used to send them, these, uh, 'samasra' the commissionaires [commissioners], ya know, in, uh,

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
In Beirut they'd sent, uh, they'd sell them the tickets and take commission on it y'know, and put them on the ship too.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Mhm.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
That's how when I came, that's the way it was. We came by commissionaires.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
So anyway, he didn't have, he didn't speak any English [at all?]

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Not a word.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
He didn't go to [[Speaking Arab]]

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
No, no they don't do that in the old countries. Nobody does that.

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
[[Speaking Arab]] in Fort Wayne on the train from New York 'alla' Fort Wayne.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
'Alla' Fort Wayne. Then [[Arab: they went to Fort Wayne where they dropped off the goods/merchandise]].
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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
And then Salem Bshara?

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
[Speaking Arab] Salem Bshara. [Speaking Arab]

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
Do you know Salem Bshara?

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Yeah I know him. When we first-

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{SPEAKER name="Latefee Cory"}
[[Is he alive r-right now-]]

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
When we first came to this country.




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