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Missouri Two - Text

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I was born in Kansas City, Missouri, 1949.  I (uh) have lived here for th-- (uh) fifty years.  (Um) I had two different jobs.  I worked for Universal Pictures, and then I came to Revere Plaza and I’ve been here ten years. OK, I have Suzy, a Chihuahua.  I have ’lizabeth, (uh) a Boston bull, and I have Bullis, German shepherd, and they play outside a-- all the time.  An’ they have lots of fun playin’ out in the yard, an’ then they like to eat bacon for breakfast, and stuff like that. I-- I went to Askew to grade school, and then we went to East High, to high school, and the teachers were all-- all very nice.  (Uh) Miss Kaiser.  Y’know, I was on the bus one day, and we was goin’ down the street, an’ the car stopped in front o’ them, an’ they hit the po’e.  An’ got a big boo-boo on my wittle head.  So I went to the doctor’s office, an’ they took care of it, an’ I’s back to work.

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

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