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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
The children were put, placed in in the convent in Paris.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
And so she learned the pure unadulterated French, she told us about sanitary napkins, we had Kotex in those days.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
[[giggles]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Au France.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
She was just really, really, really, really quite great.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
That was um-- And I told you about the families going back, the children would stay with.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mm-mm [[affirmative]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
But anyway I got really good French and so did the others.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
I finished high school at Tugaloo.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Tugaloo.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Yes, which is an American Missionary, the same thing [[??]] stayed in.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
My Mother used to drive me um, by car on a dirt road.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Between here and Tugaloo, have you been to Tugaloo?
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
I've been there yes.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
So you know the distance and what it must have been like on a dirt road.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mm-mm [[affirmative]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Umm
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Would, would you mind kind of describing that as a young person maybe making that trip. To go to school? [[Cross Talk]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Oh it was. [[Cross Talk]]
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
How long did it take you? [[Cross Talk]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Half hour or forty five minutes, something like that.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mm-mm [[affirmative]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Oh it was it was fun, it was fun.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
But you had to leave early in the day and then.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
No Tugaloo isn't that far.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mm-hmm [[affirmative]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
It's not that far from Jackson.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mm-hmm [[affirmative]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
But it was a dirt road that wasn't properly.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
But you made it. Further. [[Cross Talk]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Yes and it [[??]] I mean it was was not well kept roads.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Anyways.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
But you had your own car?
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Yup, because you were in the fuel business.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Ahh, I see! Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
[[Laughing]] [[Cross Talk]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
The first car we had though, well darn i guess because of the film business.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
My Father was in the film business in Hattiesburg before he moved to Jackson. [[??]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
And it was a Buick.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
And Mother used it to take me from um 2513th street to Meridian Mississippi.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
To Haven Teachers College, it had some other name which was a Methodist School.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
They had good schooling for children.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
I could, I could see that with the ice in the glass you know. [[??]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Alright, get me back on second.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
So what happens if there was a funeral you couldn't go to school?
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
I had more than one car.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Oh.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
We had one at one time. And um the thing is uh you always.
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