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1 | DCB_int_01 | 0.2851 | Were you- | 0.6613 |
3 | | 0.7413 | were you born and raised in DC? | 2.2173 |
4 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 2.3234 | Mm-hm. | 2.7716 |
5 | DCB_int_01 | 3.5360 | What [neighborhood?] | 4.2563 |
6 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 3.6921 | [<ts> Yes.] | 4.2603 |
7 | | 4.8526 | Um, | 5.2942 |
9 | | 5.4222 | Ivory City. | 6.1626 |
10 | DCB_int_01 | 6.6482 | Which [one?] | 7.0229 |
11 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 6.8123 | [Northeast.] | 7.4846 |
12 | DCB_int_01 | 7.5286 | Northeast? And what is it called? What's the- | 8.9773 |
13 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 9.0387 | Ivory City. | 9.7790 |
14 | DCB_int_01 | 9.8551 | Ivy City? | 10.4633 |
15 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 10.6514 | Ivory. | 11.1757 |
16 | DCB_int_01 | 11.2691 | Ivory City. | 12.0424 |
17 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 12.0414 | [Mm-hm.] | 12.4897 |
18 | DCB_int_01 | 12.2295 | [Where's] that? | 12.6897 |
19 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 13.7262 | Um, it's over there off of Trinidad. | 16.0073 |
21 | | 16.1127 | M- M- [Montello Avenue.] | 17.9416 |
22 | DCB_int_01 | 16.4903 | [Oh.] | 17.1346 |
24 | | 17.5067 | [Mm-hm.] | 17.9454 |
25 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 18.0150 | [Mm-hm.] | 18.4363 |
26 | DCB_int_01 | 18.0150 | [Mm-hm.] | 18.4363 |
27 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 18.5112 | Over there. | 19.0034 |
28 | DCB_int_01 | 19.1569 | And so you've lived here all your life? | 20.4735 |
29 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 20.5575 | All my life. | 21.4619 |
30 | DCB_int_01 | 22.6759 | Um, | 23.5683 |
32 | | 25.3185 | In school where'd you go? | 26.2429 |
33 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 27.0527 | Crummell. | 27.5569 |
35 | | 27.7370 | That [was my-] | 28.3052 |
36 | DCB_int_01 | 27.9131 | [Crummell?] | 28.4413 |
37 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 28.4987 | [Uh-huh.] | 28.9749 |
38 | DCB_int_01 | 28.6014 | [High school?] | 29.0896 |
39 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 29.3431 | No that was my elementary school. | 30.9719 |
40 | DCB_int_01 | 30.9612 | Crummell. | 31.6055 |
41 | | 33.8105 | Where's that? | 34.1627 |
43 | | 34.4416 | Or where was it? I don't- | 35.2980 |
44 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 35.2900 | Um, Crummell? N- | 36.3025 |
45 | | 36.4585 | I- | 36.5346 |
47 | | 36.6426 | Ivory City. | 37.3127 |
48 | DCB_int_01 | 37.6351 | Oh it still [exists?] | 38.7036 |
49 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 38.5195 | [Mm-hm.] | 39.0077 |
50 | | 39.3426 | They done tore it down but the building is still [there.] | 41.9198 |
51 | DCB_int_01 | 41.5116 | [It's still] there? | 42.1996 |
52 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 42.2520 | Mm-hm. | 42.6506 |
53 | DCB_int_01 | 42.7322 | Um, | 43.4085 |
55 | | 43.8755 | what about your | 44.4077 |
57 | | 44.5718 | parents? Your father, was he born here? | 46.2238 |
58 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 46.5127 | No he was born in um, | 48.0754 |
60 | | 48.4640 | <ts> | 48.5360 |
62 | | 48.8031 | Jenkinsville, South Carolina. | 50.4853 |
63 | DCB_int_01 | 52.9945 | And m- | 53.2439 |
65 | | 53.3680 | mother? | 53.7202 |
66 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 54.1444 | Mother was born from | 55.1008 |
68 | | 55.2169 | at Leavenworth, Kansas. | 56.6542 |
69 | DCB_int_01 | 56.9524 | Oh. | 57.3086 |
71 | | 57.5847 | Wow. | 57.9129 |
72 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 58.2090 | <laugh> | 59.3503 |
73 | DCB_int_01 | 59.5976 | So how did you end up here? | 60.7576 |
74 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 61.6894 | I was born here, she /did/- she had all of us here. | 64.3014 |
75 | DCB_int_01 | 64.5787 | And how m- You have- how many siblings do you have? | 66.3835 |
76 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 66.4383 | Um, I have | 67.2143 |
78 | | 67.4148 | ten sisters and four [brothers.] | 71.7015 |
79 | DCB_int_01 | 71.1032 | [Wow.] (whispered) | 71.5314 |
80 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 71.8036 | Yeah. (whispered) | 72.4979 |
81 | DCB_int_01 | 72.5479 | And what number are you? | 73.4963 |
82 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 73.9125 | Seven. | 74.3259 |
83 | DCB_int_01 | 75.1891 | Oh so you're right in the middle. | 76.4971 |
84 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 76.5725 | Right in the middle. | 77.5970 |
86 | | 77.8291 | I'm the last child from the first group. | 80.2756 |
87 | DCB_int_01 | 80.4437 | Okay, and then the- how big is the break between the two? | 82.8584 |
88 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 82.9823 | Um, | 83.5265 |
90 | | 83.7466 | three years. | 84.4733 |
91 | DCB_int_01 | 84.5150 | Three years and then it's [your-] | 85.8503 |
92 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 85.5262 | [And] then the rest of ['em come along.] | 87.2888 |
93 | DCB_int_01 | 86.6267 | [Ah gotcha.] | 87.7472 |
94 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 88.0331 | [Mm-hm.] | 88.5611 |
95 | DCB_int_01 | 88.1491 | [I'm'a move this so you can have some space] to move. What about- | 90.7664 |
96 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 88.8375 | [Mm-hm.] | 89.2977 |
98 | | 89.5458 | [Mm-hm.] | 89.9620 |
99 | DCB_int_01 | 91.0265 | what did your father do? | 91.8349 |
100 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 92.1214 | <ts> | 92.2037 |
102 | | 92.3317 | He was a boot black. | 93.5183 |
103 | DCB_int_01 | 94.0765 | What's that? | 94.4302 |
104 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 94.8104 | Shine shoes. | 95.7849 |
105 | DCB_int_01 | 95.7929 | Ah. | 96.7342 |
106 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 97.6042 | Mm-hm. | 98.3086 |
108 | | 98.5967 | He was a boot black. | 99.9293 |
109 | DCB_int_01 | 99.9773 | And what did your mom do? | 100.8001 |
110 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 101.0042 | Uh, she did um, | 102.0736 |
112 | | 102.7278 | maid's work. | 103.5722 |
113 | DCB_int_01 | 103.7042 | [Maid's work. She was a- Okay.] | 105.3050 |
114 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 103.9043 | [Hou- you know,] | 104.7643 |
116 | | 104.9408 | [in houses.] | 105.8813 |
117 | DCB_int_01 | 108.1157 | Alright. | 108.5159 |
119 | | 108.9761 | So, | 109.4843 |
121 | | 110.1300 | I- | 110.2941 |
123 | | 110.5822 | This is great | 111.2065 |
125 | | 111.3399 | cause I don't think I've interviewed anybody from Ivory City so tell me a little bit about | 115.6339 |
127 | | 116.2609 | the neighborhood, especially when you were a child what you remember. | 119.1420 |
128 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 120.0281 | I remember | 121.1886 |
130 | | 122.0398 | we had a store on the corner, | 123.6045 |
132 | | 124.6930 | um, | 125.2172 |
134 | | 125.3827 | I remember all of our- We knew all the neighbors cause it was like a small- | 129.9227 |
136 | | 130.1396 | it wasn't like | 130.7359 |
138 | | 131.0241 | big. | 131.3842 |
140 | | 132.0005 | We knew all the neighbors. | 133.4372 |
142 | | 133.9188 | The houses they was like | 135.3908 |
144 | | 135.5675 | some houses were nice, some of 'em was kind of ran down you know. | 138.9545 |
146 | | 139.5135 | Um, | 139.9348 |
148 | | 140.2178 | we'd- Our apartment | 141.4624 |
150 | | 142.2428 | was um, nineteen fifty-five | 144.2397 |
151 | DCB_int_01 | 144.4185 | Mm-hm. | 144.6746 |
152 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 145.5430 | /RD-ADDRESS-6/ | 146.6257 |
153 | DCB_int_01 | 146.9357 | Okay. | 147.3119 |
154 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 147.5840 | See we lived at Ivory City but the street was /RD-ADDRESS-6/ | 150.9069 |
156 | | 151.6540 | And you know I remember | 153.4388 |
158 | | 157.1953 | <laugh> getting beatings a lot. <laugh> | 159.9246 |
159 | DCB_int_01 | 158.9401 | [Oh. And why, cause you- cause you were the middle] child? | 161.4948 |
160 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 160.3048 | <laugh> | 161.0491 |
161 | | 161.7562 | Yeah. | 163.1608 |
163 | | 163.3929 | Something like that and um- | 165.1177 |
164 | DCB_int_01 | 166.3651 | Did you get in trouble a lot as a kid? | 167.9958 |
165 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 168.7262 | No. | 169.0302 |
166 | DCB_int_01 | 169.2704 | No, okay. | 169.8907 |
167 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 169.9868 | No. | 170.2149 |
169 | | 170.8459 | Our parents didn't- They were kind of strict. | 173.0349 |
171 | | 173.2150 | They- they were- | 174.0577 |
173 | | 174.4116 | they were strict and then in a way they wasn't strict [you know] but | 178.2889 |
174 | DCB_int_01 | 177.6598 | [Hm.] | 178.0451 |
175 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 178.6523 | when it came to us like, going outside like the kids do today, no we weren't allowed to do that. | 183.5359 |
177 | | 183.9309 | We was allowed to all sit on the porch. | 185.9038 |
179 | | 186.3080 | [And what] we could do on the porch is what we did on the porch. | 189.2867 |
180 | DCB_int_01 | 186.3093 | [Mm.] | 186.7507 |
181 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 189.6777 | If we stepped off the porch we would have to come in the house. | 192.3869 |
182 | DCB_int_01 | 190.9573 | <laugh> | 191.2714 |
183 | | 192.6830 | And so what kind of things did y'all do on the por- That's musta been a | 195.0030 |
185 | | 195.1296 | crowded [porch.] | 195.9659 |
186 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 195.5137 | [Well-] | 195.8631 |
188 | | 195.9619 | Yeah it [was.] | 196.7623 |
189 | DCB_int_01 | 196.4747 | [<laugh>] | 197.4221 |
190 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 197.0158 | [And um], w- well we could step off the porch to play | 199.9772 |
191 | | 200.3307 | jump rope [with each] other, double dutch. | 202.5331 |
192 | DCB_int_01 | 200.9590 | [Mm-hm.] | 201.3192 |
193 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 203.7977 | And we could | 204.3407 |
195 | | 204.4047 | run up the hill cause there was like a hill right in front of our door so we could run up there long as our mother was at the window and she could see what we were doing. | 211.3617 |
197 | | 211.8403 | But she did allow our brothers to do a little more. | 214.3723 |
198 | DCB_int_01 | 215.0872 | And then was it- For- | 216.8040 |
200 | | 216.9641 | In your neighborhood, is your- is your childhood home still there? | 219.7749 |
201 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 220.6125 | Yes. | 221.2432 |
202 | DCB_int_01 | 221.7650 | Really? | 222.5174 |
203 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 222.6495 | Yes. | 223.1561 |
205 | | 223.4606 | I couldn't believe it because um, | 225.1414 |
207 | | 225.5455 | uh, three weeks ago I was with a friend of mine | 228.1135 |
209 | | 228.5323 | and they were close to Ivory City so I said, why don't you take me to Ivory City to see if | 232.9477 |
211 | | 233.3787 | you know, everything look the same. It looks more like a ghost city. | 236.5520 |
213 | | 237.2218 | But nineteen fifty-five where we stayed | 239.8404 |
215 | | 239.9685 | is still there. | 240.8835 |
216 | DCB_int_01 | 241.1264 | Really? How big was the house? | 242.4270 |
217 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 243.3714 | Not a house, apartment. | 244.6200 |
218 | DCB_int_01 | 244.7815 | It was an apar- | 245.2057 |
220 | | 245.7259 | And then how many of you stayed in there? | 247.2346 |
221 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 247.5441 | All of us. | 248.2925 |
222 | DCB_int_01 | 248.6526 | So it was what, sixteen, [seventeen of you guy-] | 251.1513 |
223 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 250.1587 | [Mm-hm. Mm-hm.] | 251.8854 |
224 | DCB_int_01 | 251.4193 | [and how many] rooms? | 252.6719 |
225 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 254.1673 | One. | 254.6275 |
227 | | 256.4564 | One. | 256.8766 |
229 | | 257.7237 | My- my mother and father had that room, we slept in the living rooms you know in sleeping bags, | 262.9622 |
231 | | 263.8880 | mattresses, | 265.2213 |
233 | | 265.5155 | it looked- we looked like a- a carpet. | 267.4804 |
235 | | 268.5663 | Once we all | 269.3546 |
237 | | 269.5147 | got into bed and went to sleep we lookeded like a carpet. | 272.0092 |
238 | DCB_int_01 | 272.5415 | And you stayed there until how old? | 274.1302 |
239 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 274.2793 | <ts> | 274.3514 |
241 | | 275.0317 | Until I was um, | 276.5054 |
243 | | 276.6435 | <sigh> | 278.6204 |
245 | | 280.4813 | I had to be like | 281.8739 |
247 | | 283.9897 | nine. | 284.6500 |
249 | | 284.9155 | Nine or eight. | 285.7839 |
250 | DCB_int_01 | 286.1961 | And then where did y'all move to? | 287.3206 |
251 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 287.5327 | We moved to- | 288.6626 |
253 | | 288.8227 | I- I remember that as if it was yesterday, | 290.7013 |
255 | | 291.1131 | we moved on Ainger- | 292.8139 |
257 | | 293.1928 | Ainger Street- | 294.5528 |
259 | | 294.8096 | Ainger Place Southeast. | 296.3303 |
260 | DCB_int_01 | 296.7985 | Okay so [you were in Northeast and then] you went over to [South, so you clo- close] by are you- | 300.7871 |
261 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 297.1680 | [Off of Alabama A-] | 298.3886 |
263 | | 299.1610 | [To Southeast.] | 300.1876 |
264 | DCB_int_01 | 300.9325 | Was it close by where FBR is now? | 302.6774 |
266 | | 302.7534 | Or is it on the other [side?] | 303.9268 |
267 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 303.7138 | [On the] other side. | 304.5262 |
268 | DCB_int_01 | 304.4862 | On the other [side.] | 305.1462 |
269 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 304.9144 | [In] Woodland, and you mighta heard of Woodland Terrace? | 307.6861 |
270 | DCB_int_01 | 307.1102 | [/Woodla-/ Mm-hm.] | 308.0035 |
271 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 308.0826 | Yup. | 308.3067 |
273 | | 308.9670 | My mother li- That's where we moved at. | 310.7332 |
275 | | 311.1654 | Ainger. | 311.7257 |
277 | | 312.2299 | They moved us in this house | 313.7712 |
279 | | 314.5377 | and this house was- | 315.4702 |
281 | | 315.5662 | Oh my god, it was full of rats. | 317.2662 |
283 | | 317.8166 | So we- we stayed up at night, we talked to each other | 321.1556 |
285 | | 321.2636 | ducking rats and | 322.5002 |
287 | | 323.0018 | then um, I say we lived in there for about | 325.3389 |
289 | | 326.5782 | a year. | 327.1969 |
291 | | 327.6027 | Our pictures were in the paper | 329.1467 |
293 | | 329.9025 | in um, The Post, | 331.1151 |
295 | | 331.5713 | you know, /ts-/ A- and I never forget the front- | 334.1497 |
297 | | 334.3339 | the um, the headline: | 335.4979 |
299 | | 337.3607 | Rats | 338.1050 |
301 | | 338.2411 | Big as Cats, | 339.2536 |
303 | | 339.3870 | which they was. | 340.4115 |
305 | | 341.0118 | And then after we lived there for a year, | 343.4223 |
307 | | 343.7092 | then they moved my mother down | 345.4299 |
309 | | 345.7981 | the street in one of the um, | 347.7670 |
311 | | 348.1486 | house- | 349.3619 |
313 | | 350.0335 | in one of the low income houses. | 351.8183 |
314 | DCB_int_01 | 351.8931 | Mm-hm. | 352.1371 |
315 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 352.1972 | Five bedroom. | 353.2292 |
316 | DCB_int_01 | 353.9020 | So that's the biggest house y'all had at that point cause you went from one [bedroom] | 357.4860 |
317 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 357.0929 | [Yup.] | 357.4488 |
318 | | 357.9052 | [Yup to- to this] | 358.8337 |
319 | DCB_int_01 | 357.9292 | [to this other p-] | 358.8119 |
320 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 358.9177 | other house | 359.5980 |
322 | | 359.9049 | which we couldn't use none of the rooms because they was so- | 362.9063 |
324 | | 364.2337 | they just wasn't sanitary enough. | 366.4187 |
326 | | 366.5788 | I don't even know why they moved our- my mother in there but | 369.2160 |
328 | | 369.6389 | by us being young | 370.8016 |
330 | | 371.4078 | we didn't wanna take the picture but she made us get in it, | 374.0607 |
332 | | 374.1744 | w- [So,] | 374.6346 |
333 | DCB_int_01 | 374.3145 | [Right.] | 374.6306 |
334 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 374.9041 | she- I guess she can get help | 376.2855 |
336 | | 376.4809 | the way she did. | 377.2449 |
338 | | 377.6468 | Then she moved down the street, | 379.1628 |
340 | | 379.7077 | at um, twenty-three sixty, | 381.3405 |
342 | | 381.6514 | she stayed there for | 382.9520 |
344 | | 383.6403 | fifty-two years until she died. | 385.8603 |
346 | | 386.5684 | And | 387.0166 |
348 | | 387.4328 | I left home- When she moved down there, I left home at the age of thirteen. | 391.1021 |
349 | DCB_int_01 | 391.9377 | And where'd you do? | 392.6550 |
350 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 393.9066 | All over the place. | 394.9164 |
352 | | 395.0085 | I- I stayed up- | 396.0169 |
354 | | 396.1930 | um, | 396.5372 |
356 | | 396.6252 | up Northwest with my sister, she lived in the Dunbar Hotel, I don't know if anybody remember that. | 401.5422 |
358 | | 402.0865 | That was on Fifteenth and U. | 403.4518 |
360 | | 403.8941 | She stayed in there with her boyfriend, I stayed in there with her for a while. | 406.9874 |
362 | | 407.3664 | But then he wanted to start getting fresh, so I told her, she didn't believe me cause she was a drunk. <laugh> | 412.7463 |
364 | | 413.0585 | So, | 413.4318 |
366 | | 413.7268 | I stayed out in the street. | 414.7460 |
368 | | 415.3263 | I stayed in um, Meridian Park, | 417.1575 |
370 | | 417.3432 | that was | 417.7554 |
372 | | 417.9315 | [mostly-] | 418.7248 |
373 | DCB_int_01 | 418.2876 | [Mm-hm.] | 418.9570 |
374 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 419.0894 | that was mostly where I stayed. | 420.7155 |
376 | | 421.1277 | I stayed [there for like-] | 422.3077 |
377 | DCB_int_01 | 421.6039 | [Off of 14th] Street? | 422.6284 |
378 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 422.6364 | Uh-huh. | 423.0166 |
380 | | 423.4848 | I stayed in there for like three years. | 425.7472 |
382 | | 426.1928 | Off and on. | 426.9848 |
384 | | 427.7429 | A- Um, s- People would- | 428.8936 |
386 | | 429.1916 | I would meet people in the park and they would see that I didn't have nowhere to go, they would offer me over to their house, give me something to eat, | 435.1385 |
388 | | 435.5467 | let me take a shower, | 436.7112 |
390 | | 436.9553 | stuff like that, but then after that I had to go. | 439.2644 |
392 | | 439.5313 | So, | 439.8114 |
394 | | 439.9074 | majority of the times I slept in the park. | 442.0541 |
396 | | 442.5126 | Even in the winter time, I think that's why sometime I have trouble with this hip. | 445.7609 |
397 | DCB_int_01 | 447.2696 | [Wow.] | 448.1674 |
398 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 448.0553 | [Mm-hm.] | 448.7957 |
399 | DCB_int_01 | 448.8157 | And so then- So, | 449.9042 |
401 | | 450.2203 | you grew up- | 450.9083 |
403 | | 451.3156 | Okay so you started in elementary school but while you were living in the park you didn't- Did you go to school? | 455.7537 |
404 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 455.7647 | <ts> | 455.8167 |
406 | | 455.9808 | No. | 456.2209 |
407 | DCB_int_01 | 457.3945 | Mm-mm, so [you were just educated] in the [streets.] | 459.3314 |
408 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 457.8947 | [Mm-mm.] | 458.3627 |
410 | | 459.1353 | [Mm-hm.] | 459.6086 |
411 | | 459.8130 | Yup. | 460.0812 |
413 | | 460.2973 | That's exactly what I tell people I- | 461.7379 |
415 | | 461.9140 | My- my knowledge came from the streets. | 463.8789 |
417 | | 464.2925 | Because when I left | 465.4050 |
419 | | 465.6731 | Crummell | 466.3705 |
421 | | 466.9697 | that was my elementary school, I went to Cramer. | 469.2041 |
422 | DCB_int_01 | 469.5897 | Mm-hm. | 470.1300 |
423 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 470.2020 | [Yeah.] | 470.5566 |
424 | DCB_int_01 | 470.2020 | [The- Not] too [far.] | 471.1660 |
425 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 470.9863 | [Uh-huh.] | 471.5226 |
426 | DCB_int_01 | 471.2905 | [Mm-hm.] | 471.7651 |
427 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 471.6186 | [I] went to Cramer. | 472.4750 |
428 | | 473.2782 | I | 473.6515 |
430 | | 473.8584 | passed to the | 474.8069 |
432 | | 474.8949 | eighth grade. | 475.7113 |
434 | | 477.2414 | And then by me not | 478.4633 |
436 | | 478.5394 | you know, b- get- being able to get no help, nobody didn't wanna help me because back then in the day, | 483.0434 |
438 | | 483.4604 | you know like, it wasn't easy to get on public system, [get food stamps stuff like] that. | 487.5924 |
439 | DCB_int_01 | 486.1696 | [Mm mm-hm.] | 487.4262 |
440 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 488.1653 | So, | 488.6107 |
442 | | 488.9297 | I just | 489.3179 |
444 | | 489.9235 | stopped going to school and | 491.5523 |
446 | | 492.3847 | like I said I left home when I was thirteen, | 494.6097 |
448 | | 495.2327 | when my mother saw me again I was twenty-six. | 498.0461 |
449 | DCB_int_01 | 499.2280 | So for thirteen years. | 500.6646 |
450 | DCB_se1_ag4_f_01 | 501.9480 | Yup, I lived off of people that was the ones that was nice enough to let me come and stay with 'em and other than that, | 507.4145 |
452 | | 507.8295 | I was sleeping in the park | 509.0180 |
454 | | 509.4102 | when I felt like that wasn't safe some nights I would go in abandoned buildings, sleep in there. | 514.2738 |
456 | | 514.7968 | Sleep in elevator shafts that didn't work, you know. | 517.9783 |