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Early ’50s. I went to Korea in the early ’50s, I was there for 16 months. That was my first experience being out of town, and 30 days on the ship going and 30 days on the ship coming back. That was a great experience. Korea was totally different than… Read More

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What years was this?… Read More

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From Knoxville, I left home, I wasn’t getting along with my dad. I left home and went to my girlfriend’s house and they let me come in there, that was a mistake. Her mother let me come in and live with them. Well, I’m a teenage boy and hornier than… Read More

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You moved somewhere else?… Read More

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My uncle, Uncle Frank said, “Go home and tell your mother she needs you.” Now, from Knoxville, where you were living, where did you go after Knoxville?… Read More

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I had a cousin in Pensacola, Florida, was my uncle Jake’s daughter, and she was my cousin. There was a song that came out called Nature Boy, you may have remembered that, I don’t know. ♪ Nature, boy ♪ ♪ A strange enchanted boy ♪ Well, she was always singing… Read More

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Or they were doing other things?… Read More

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It was a struggle, but the- Did they understand your love of nature?… Read More

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Housewife most of her life. There were four children, I was the oldest, and there was one girl and three boys. Read More

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And your mom, she was a housewife or she did other things?… Read More

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My father was a salesman. He was in World War II, came home, and then he worked for American Tobacco Company and then Johnson Wax Company. He had worked as a salesperson most of his life. He killed himself at 43, committed suicide. I wasn’t very close to him, but… Read More

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What’d your father do?… Read More

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High school?… Read More

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I was in high school. Read More

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How old were you?… Read More

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Well, yeah, I got a little money for that. But I was out there hauling corn too. And then also worked in tobacco patches where we had to pull the blooms off or top them or dust them. I did things with deldron, andron, and malathion without a shirt on… Read More

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They paid you money for that?… Read More

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So it was- They paid you money?… Read More