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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
And he stayed there, Behe?

{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
[[Arabic: [[?]] 3 minutes. The wallet, they carried in their hands]] with straps. They strapped that to their back. And with [[Arabic: everything, there was]] jewelry, you know like shoelaces, lotions and all kinds,[[Arabic: they carried in their hands]] and they used to walk from town to town; if the towns weren't too far apart, they'd walk it.

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{SPEAKER name="Interview"}
[[Arabic: How do you know what they sell?]]

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}

They walked it. They'd opened the merchandise. They talked a couple of words, "Lady you buy something?", that's the whole story. They'd open the merchandise, "How much, [[Arabic: every time. They knew ]] $10, $15, $25, $50?". That's all...That's all. They told them prices.

So this one day, he was walking from one town to another, and he took the railroad track, cause it was shorter than the roads you know?

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{SPEAKER name="Interview"}

Uh huh.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}

He was walking the railroad track, and he came to the bridge. What do you call the trestle? You know, without any sides to it or anything. So, he heard the train coming and he was in the middle of the bridge. And he saw the train coming, he couldn't go back because there was no place to go back, and forward, he all but thought he could go forward. So, he started to run, with this big case, on his back, and the one in his hand. This happened to my father for sure. He started to run, he got to the... and this, this was over a river, this trestle was over a river and just as the train was ready to hit him, he jumped.

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{SPEAKER name="Interview"}

[[Arabic: All of everything and him? ]]

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}

Everything, on his back and his hands.

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{SPEAKER name="Interview"}

It's a wonder that didn't sink him.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}

He didn't get in the river. He happened to jump on the edge of the water. So, he lost conscious entirely, he lost conscious entirely. Eh, because of the weight you know and the height and he had a dream that his mother was saying to him--

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