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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}

I was born 23 and a year after that four, that was 5 years altogether.

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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}

5 years?

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Five years, yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
And I was born 1898, 5 years before that how much would that make him?
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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
1893
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}

1893. And that's when he came.
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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}

Jimminey crickets. So anyway, in the first period in Fort Wayne, [[Arabic?]]
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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Yeah. You know what he did when he married my mother, that father of yours? My mother was being engaged to another fella. You know what he did? Agh, that dad of yours?
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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
He's your father too!

{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Yeah, I mean... [[Arabic?]] upstairs there were [[Arabic?]] and her uncle and her brother was there. And naturally the fella doesn't engage the girl in the old days.

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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
How did they did do it?

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}

And they ask the parents and the other one of the parents. The bride and groom are not there at all. The man and the boy are not there at all. And they were upstairs in the upstairs room working out the details- you know the engagement, these people would ask "Can we have your daughter for our son?" so-and-so and so And so my mother was downstairs with her cousin, a, you know, girl, another girl, so uh, my father says-

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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
Your mother was living with her mother?

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}

No, my grandmother was in the old country. My mother-

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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}

She was here alone your mother?

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}

With her brother.

{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}

With her brother.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}

Yeah.

{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
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She must have come very young too.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
Yeah, she was only fifteen. She had only been here a year. My mother got married when she was 16.

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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
Your father had the need to marry young women.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}

Yeah, young beautiful women too.

{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
Beautiful women too.

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{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}

He married three young beautiful women, if you please.

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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
Oh, that dapper man.

{SPEAKER name="Nazha Haney"}
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And dapper, he was so handsome, they couldn't resist him I guess


Transcription Notes:
PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT FOR REVIEW OR APPROVAL IF YOU ARE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND AND TRANSCRIBE ARABIC. Some parts like the interruptions are not all caught and transcribed . Didn't add too many time stamps. Some errors might have been made in the transcription.