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Transcription: [[Loud noises and talking are heard throughout tape]]
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
So, when they wasn't workin, they had an off day. That's when they would come over to Chicago and go to the movie.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Uhm huh.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
My sister [[inaudible]] we would keep in touch, in touch, you know, by one another.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
We usually, if they were comin over here, they'd let me know if they were going to be at the theater.
[00:26:04]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
They also wanted to stay up at the 47th and South Park; Martin Luther King Drive [[giggles]].
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Uhm huh.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Were you ever curious about the movies that had frightened your brother so much?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Hey, what?

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
The movies that you described that your brother had nightmares about. Were you ever curious, and ever talked to him about what he had seen?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Ah. Yeah, but I knows nothin about things from my brother. He didn't relate to me as he should have.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I used to be angry at him because he was Smart in the head. I think I was a little more smarter than him when it came to other things
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
because he didn't, he didn't work too much with his hands. I think he wanted to be left [[inaudible]] We got a lot of [[inaudible]]. There's nothing wrong in his condition,
[00:27:01]

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
but everybody can't push a button, some of us is going to have to do manual work, and we don't want to do that. [[Laughs]]
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
A lot of people don't want to. So he was one of those guys. He didn't want to work with his hands. [[inaudible]]
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Did he stay in Canton?

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
He never left. He left and went to Cleveland for a while. Ohio. But he didn't stay up there, you know.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Doin'-- He didn't stay or doin' all 4 years at [[?]] a while. A small while.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Too long to come back home and [[?]]. I think his wife was with him for a while, but he
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
still had bought a property; he had bought a house down here to come back home [[inaudible]].
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Uhm huh. Back in Chicago, what other kinds of things did you do for amusement, as a fam--
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