Salt Spring Island Archives
305_Ling-Weston_2016.mp3
otter.ai
9.02.2024
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Outline
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So the paper doesn't matter. My other my other thought was, it would be nice to have a couple of
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lines about performance counters, so to speak. So we've got that you were born in Beijing. But what how did you how did you meet the hospital? Where did you meet your husband? And what did you do as an occupation? I'm a bit of this, but it was in Australia. And what did you teach?
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I was in charge of the left in Australia, and then the teaching Hong Kong, in charge of the lab, five labs, in the unit voice, chemicals it chemistry, biology, biology and chemistry.
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In a political voice.
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I was teaching in a girl school established the year for biology. And
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in Australia, you were teaching in a boy school? Yeah. And before that, you've been in Hong Kong teaching
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biology.
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So you'd gone from China to Hong Kong,
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China to Hong Kong back to Canada, and went back to records my second husband migrated. Firstly, you know, I don't have to tell.
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putting that in there. And I just wanted to get a little bit of background. Yeah. So both. So you were a teacher in biology and chemistry or a science? Do? You met your husband in Australia? Yeah. And so he was a broadcaster. Yeah. So that's, that's what he was a broadcaster was me. Yeah. And he was on the CBC recently. Somebody
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ABC, ABC, ABC, yeah, there is just a celebrated 50 years, was it 50 years I entered the
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1975 How many years is that,
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till now 2515. Young, is 2514 to 4641 marks,
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you know, 31 Because of the celebration of how many years of you know, FM is that he was working at him, you know, classical
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music broadcasters.
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He's also a presenter and program presenter as well. Yeah. Classics, middle of the road, got us on programs.
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Good. Work with your date of birth, but I will put the title
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here retired health. So I've had same task. And I was very, very hot in Australia 42 degrees, I was managing five labs, doing our work with the teachers. And the students, when they get to year 12, they have to do a project. So they come to me make, you know, talk about their projects, and provide them with the advice and also equipment that to the project. And so then for the teachers, you know, when I first entered the two women in the boys school, one is Liberia. So we have four male teachers, and my left is down below we have five left on the left together. So I have to run from one led to the other one to go to the loo they just made one loop when I first entered so in the end, I've had a problem because I go to school on one cup of coffee writing both work. When I get there, I'll go to other servers for lunch, you know, for the students and things only are ordered half serving, you know, recess time and after afternoon lunchtime. They have tea lady to bring coffee and tea so I just exist on coffee, caffeine, you know, so in the end, halfway through, I have to run to the left from my lab to the bathroom in the main building, you know, make it to the staff room. And then so so my doctor told me to cut down tea and coffee. So because I was running since then only drink one Coffee Yes,
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I'm usually I usually do coffee first thing in the morning. And that's it. And then I have tea tea the rest of the day but I actually prefer coffee. I like to eat coffee at my drink of choice, but it keeps me awake. So I have to watch Yeah.
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So I don't drink coffee after I drink a lot of tea. You know the rest of the time? Yeah. Yes, I can just switch to tea
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I think this is perfectly fine. I just felt as if we wanted a couple of sentences about for you. And then what you did you obviously did a lot of stuff since then. And we've got that so I'm not gonna put your date of birth. Okay, but
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I will I don't mind
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because some people don't you didn't know
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people you know just 20 years younger or one of my favorite photographs what this one? Yeah, because I take a lot of photos of scenery you said you want to take all the
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you said the wisdom
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walking the dog wasn't see myself on
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this none of you in here
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because I took off
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on yourself as well. Yeah,
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I think I got your email email
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where it is you've got it on here.
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Oh here Yeah. Yeah. Maybe this shows sensitive because maybe I'll show you you have time to drink a coffee or offer the thunder with adults you've taken them off you will take the dogs
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dogs but it was so funny. Of course what did I do I've just keep having a whole set of four people come and stay with me yeah houses and cleaning up desperately the dogs I took them down to the bay where it's all muddy else's clean the dogs in a tie them up outside don't get my garden hose. I'm looking after my friends in fact we're looking after Susan goods dog. Oh my goodness she was murdering this dog
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any neighbors? Really? All I was doing was washing his legs which were covered in moto doesn't like it but it was just fine so this is the conservancy stuff Oh yes. That's nice. Yeah.
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It probably got the dates behind I don't have one of them
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also, this one out the museum is one of the earliest ones always in charge of all I must tell you the story about
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envelopes as
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I took them on for now
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I send it to you because my eyes are very good at finding the time in pictures as well. Because I got the email address
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my son's still playing. I just tell you the story about you know, majoring in the what I was teaching. Oh yes. When I was going to go to university My father asked me what I wanted to study as a fine arts. He said staff to the staff to that which is very true. So only you know, early days I took replicating lessons 40 lessons. That's a long story. Anyway, I didn't stop when I moved to Australia with you know, before married I bought a house where I was loved portabellas taking, you know, was outside this year. We just started writing, you know, my childhood, self produced by motherhood, my early days in China because I didn't start doing this. And my father asked me, but I want to serve as a fine arts he said, stop that. So I said, he said Yes, as a doctor. I said no, I didn't want to be Delta Force about nurses. So I said since you're paying for a YouTube so he picked up our chemistry, which I majored in major in two subjects biochemistry and microbiology. And after graduated people thought I was crazy.
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You said it was a double degree
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no no I majoring only major in one subject I majored in two because that was crazy because love political you know is spent on my life in so many afterwards, I was teaching you know, because it's all related all these years because in Hong Kong, all the top notch chemistry now we can change your blood tests and everything pretty in the machine. With us we have the culture all the bacteria microbiology and biochemistry is our analytical. So I'm very interested by them in genetics, which is part of my course. I told this is medical sense is closer related to doctors because the first couple of years is all the medical students all my collegians in Australia they all became doctors now retired or passed away. I was the only one in medical science. Yeah, so me after I moved to back to Australia start painting decorating my house yeah, also like writing only did that after retiring.
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Writing you said your children's books were apart from that what did you write
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a piece on the I entered the fall fair. Every year? I won the first prize for seniors trophy is home my son wrote and I illustrated until the fall Fair last year. I did I usually entered a lot of the Saltspring fourth year and I win the first prize in different categories once I get the first prize I tried something else. So I want the one three trophies one for the garden club trophy. Oh god yeah. I got the plate. That one is for sunset sunrise sunset I won the first prize well for that photograph I love
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what it is related yeah
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and the third one is like illustration the book is written by myself I wonder first prize and also trophy
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which was my Blackberry I got first prize it's actually in my I was put blind in black in general Oh yeah.
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BlackBerry reflected around the extra Yeah, you know the extent will because depends on the the surroundings, you know the nutrients from the soil. The lines, of course, people building activities indeed. That's about at least 20 years old. You
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probably can see from the back of the phone. You Even photographs can't read because Apple photos change is
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1611 1527 50
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Is this a number?
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Oh think it's really film yeah I was thinking it was a date but it's not
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some of the later ones about data
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because they go Yeah, it's the
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not to travel etc. After a comeback from each trip I write articles printed by the travel magazines also done travel writing as well. Yeah. I love writing photography and Sony having much better than house can you vacuum with me today? Or yesterday first time I vacuum the house I called are still in different places. Because the trip I went to transfer there and railway game back in a wheelchair. Because my when he went out, the other knee went out. So came back, you know, last last stop was from from Petersburg with a catchy plea. I know I will walk into whether this and Catherine's Paris. Catherine's palace of emperor's palace was law a little walking. When he went up. The Avenue went out so when I called on the plane, I know I couldn't get off the plane. So I asked the China airline you know they have reciprocal arrangement with the Russian. So I spoke Mandarin to the air stewardess. That's it. Could you call me a wheelchair? That helped me the beside me a guy and also wheelchair so he push us? Because we landed in the smaller airport. We have to go to the National Airport. You have to catch a train with your luggage. I went with my Yeah, so they assigned the person to look after me. So I looked after her to my friend from Japan. She traveled with me. So handle her luggage. She went big suitcase, my, my, my wheelchair, and he will kneel on to the train. And he handled and on connectedly racial airport that China has had the Olympic Games who yesterday revamped all the loose before this is, you know, the old fashioned does this one is I have never been wheelchair before this first time. And I was so impressed because he just will me. He says just press the button says disabled people handicapped people. And that door opens everything's automatic. Yeah.
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So was that the last time you traveled?
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No. Now five years ago
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where you came back? Well,
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yesterday. Yesterday I said so back to my corner. And then I got inklings of the other muscles all aching pain. So I have this magical pills. Take you know, lift the back of the got worse. And last night. I couldn't get out of bed. I couldn't turn with AC. So I took another pillow. Talk. And I slept this morning. Take another pill. Because when I came back from, from Trans Siberian Railway, I tried hot pack, ice pack. Laser acupuncture, laser treatment, nothing worked. So Dr. Leung gave me cortisone steroids in each knee that fix that. And then my son told me you can only have cortisone steroid in two years ago, three times a lifetime. After the first strike, you're out, do you have to have the knee replacement things like that? So I said to her I said, Well, you call me with a cortisone steroid. I know it's only kind of three times give it to me because I'm like a cat. My lives right? All it lasts me for the rest of my life. So you just love this What do you love with a mountain? Advancements in medication you can have three times a year. I said give it to me, because it killed me last time. She said, new pills coming up, take these pills. And if it doesn't work and so I traveled with him. So now he's a to my friends got me problems and things that just cure in one day. But last night was what I need is the back of my bed.
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Get somebody in a household.
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Well, when Rick was there, we have the homecare
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got that anymore. Now
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he's been in for two months for the first time. living area, there's no problem. Last year's because they I said I'll do just my corner and sing. And they just start taking
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visitors and I was clean up my visitors this time. Today, this is why they're coming tomorrow. I decided to have gone to spring clean the house, which my good friend from Vancouver, this is my book club. They're coming. They're coming tomorrow. So I'm spring cleaning the house, as in cleaning the windows outside and inside doing the this is when I take the books out for a walk of
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life first 1515 years. Because I only added that addition after my mother died. So I feel the addition. Now because we have taken a master bedroom and bathroom and when the kids come to visit with a girlfriend now with the grandchildren, there have now been 13 years because I remember the kids when they come to visit and it always feels I built a house about 15 years ago for my mother that I used to have friends coming to visit. That time of doing everything myself always clean up. When I'm there I just booked everywhere.
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I am naturally like that. You know, so it's it's a good thing to have the citizens because we're taking away with you. And I've got the I've got the paper. Yeah, I
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got the email address.
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And upload that and give it back
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to you. Yeah, I'll send one with the assembly. And you've got
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my email address. Yeah. Don't rush don't rush. This making sure that that's very nice photo.
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That's my favorite. Because not very often people think I'm always taking pictures.
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I went on holiday to Costa Rica,
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all the birds
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and come back and I'm putting all my photos up and people say where are you? Yeah, I've managed to get like one or two from my other friends from the guide talks. Yeah. Yeah, just good. Because you actually do want to see yourself.
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Yeah, yeah. But I didn't think about it because I usually I still like taking films, you know? Yes. And I also take this one only has this past three years ago. My cousin's son gave it to me when I pass to Hong Kong. So I love traveling. I love when I print. I usually print two copies. One copy to a friend who accompany me. Yes, yes. Now the apple photo is changed. You don't have to double prints anymore. Because they charge you for every photo that printed Can you
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just send it digitally? I don't used to go.
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Oh, wow. Yeah. I don't even know they still had it. Oh, yeah. Because of my son now. digitally.
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It's so much easier. Yeah, in the SERPs.
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This one doesn't cost so much to get developed. I was taking my friends walking note we throw and after taking them they say can I take feature meal
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I didn't know anybody to film
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my son does. My son is to see to it. Because it is a second career, because he was in high school. He was learning computer already, you know, now it's when he graduated, went to UTC. And his wife is there were classmates from the kindergarten. Yeah, both of them mean the school band, you know, she's the drummer. The drummer, he played, started with a recorder, and then graduated the violin, when clarinet and saxophone. So they belong to a school band. They traveled together. They won the first prize. So later on, they graduated, so my daughter in law, physiotherapist at UBC, they went both separate ways. But they met again because of the school band. And then they both went separate ways. She was working here strong, you know, for many years, yeah, yeah. And also my son was called his own company to company. Then he got something to do with the Microsoft Windows. And he sold his company. So both of them. This is they had an email with a thing. So they start photography. So one of the first with film digital, also black and white. Especially black and white, because all the photographs now black archival, lasts forever. He's got now he ran into cheated teaching the first students at home. Now he thought of them teaching lanterra college. Yes.
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What did they teach?
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Top wrong developing different techniques?
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Over
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Yes, yes. I'll tell you one of them things. It's absolutely amazing when we get really really good photographs in the archives. Yeah. The detail in those photographs is stunning. Yeah, you can just zoom right,
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right. Right, right. Yeah. Well, that's why these is taking and developing his own. And then they have exhibitions and they want prices and they produce
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an artistic.
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Latest now they're producing dark room painting. Photography comes out like painting.
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That's the darkroom technique. Yeah. Yeah. That's really interesting. Yeah. So it's like going back to the old fashion. Yeah,
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yes. Yeah. Even the even the music, you know, the LP. Ric came to me moved. He brought us all his wall piece and then CD came in. He destroyed and throw all the lps away. Now they're coming back. I know my son.
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While he's been a musician. Now he's a producer. He's he's he lives in Vancouver.
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What kind of film doesn't know
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film? Music? Yeah. Well, combination. He's now He's a producer mixer. Now. So other people's work now. But he's unstuck with reggae. And he chose music he loved was a black music, but he's white. You're the wrong color.
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My middle son who's always interested in music, and he plays the guitar. He went to LA to Music Institute because now he is his favorite artists is Jimi Hendrix. Oh, yeah. And he plays like Jimi Hendrix. You know, he's still he's got a degree. He's now a caregiver. Now he still calls for the quality jam sessions. Yeah.
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So my son was in the band and into music production went to music school. Yeah.
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Where do we go to Vancouver
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to places King Edward? Political numbers in business. Music Business.
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Yeah. Well, to Coulson when he went to LA for the Music Institute. You know, they went down there for his graduation and things. International students from Japan and the even the band leader you know, asked him to join the band before he graduated. To mark to finish the course in advance, so he came back and informed on bank he traveled around in the Montreal area and festival and things like that. Then he fell in love with Japanese girl that came over to study English. She was a midwife in Japan, deliver hundreds of babies married her and brought her back and then you can earn a living like you'll starve to death became a caregiver. So everybody tries sorry, you see Mary No, no. No, grandchildren.
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No grandchildren. I'm not sure. I've got one son. So
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what's the whole thing? Not because they call males golf.
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Time but yes, no, I haven't got too many expectations. And he would have been great as a dad. Yeah. Just
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need to write person.
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Which is?
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Well, I have three sons. The oldest one that one is computer one. When we got married well 30 He's turned 50. It's closer to 60 than 50. In Korea, they got married about maybe 30 years ago. He says they're getting married. They've been living together. Every time they've got married no children. So I have always had grandma and grandpa
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the middle one is marry the Japanese midwife. And third one was teaching you also before that he was teaching baking. And then he was before them was teaching in Turkey Eastern several years. When the first grandchild was born. He came back from St. Brothers one no grandchildren when they got married
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Thank you. Very nice. Love it.
