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Missouri Three - Text

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I’m a lector at my church.  Maybe i-- I read about once a month, an’ I also read at another church, w-- on the third Sunday of the month.   And (um) it’s something that I very much enjoy, an’ look forward to.  An’ it takes a lot of preparation-- rehearsal for your readings.  And (um) you’re-- It’s your re-- it’s really your responsibility to-- to help the assembly understand the readings. I have some friends, that live very close.  And they got a cat, about a year and a half ago.  And I was kind of against this, them getting a cat, because I-- I don’t know why, but I just was kind of against it.  But then when I met their cat, which they named Emma, I fell in love with her.   An’ I think a lot of her, and I am her regular babysitter, or cat-sitter. [Laughs]  Which I enjoy very much.  She likes to sit on my lap an’ watch television with me, an’ maybe take a nap on my lap.  I live in a high-rise apartment on the twentieth floor of my building, which I very much enjoy, ’s’ there’s a wonderful view.  Can see for miles an’ miles, an’ I enjoy it.  I enjoy the-- the height, except when it storms, and then I do not like living on the twentieth floor of my building.   

UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUELINE BAKER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR TRANSCRIPTIONS, June 29, 2008

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