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 quick. Yes. Okay, confident. Right. Yes. Okay. You say it right. Yeah. Um

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did you know the interviews at issue?
They have like an online repository

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and we put them on the issue library.
So anybody all over the world can

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see it. So if you tell people in Sudan
South Sudan, look at my interview,

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they can go on there and look at it
and then I'll leave you this. We don't

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have to sign them, this is anything.
But we make certain that it's only

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used for educational. Nobody can um
profit from your interview. It's only

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educational. And then what I'll do is
when we get uploaded, I'll send you

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the link and you can send it to
whoever and then so we're going to go

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through the interview and we're gonna
I'm gonna ask you first about your

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name and your family. So we can people
know like you're where you were

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born, we're going to go into memories.
Uh huh, your village life, you can

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tell you about your village life. Then
we're going to go into about how

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war came to your village, what
happened, the refugee camp? And then you're

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when you came to America first came to
America, you know what you

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experience there. And then I'm gonna
end it with asking you how you want

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to be remembered because ideally I'm
hoping that these interviews, your

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your Children, your great
grandchildren, great, great grandchildren can

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always go back and say this is this is
who who brought us here. This is

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you know. Yeah. And then I'm gonna ask
you if you can think in your native

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tongue. Okay, insane. What is my name
is at the very end. Just anything

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you want to, whatever you want to
leave here something in your native

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tongue. If you want to say maybe two
people back home, you know, or maybe

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the people here and uh and so and so
your your Dinka nor Okay. The Okay.

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Okay. So you need a time uh give me
Microsoft about sweating because

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there's a lot shine to it. Okay, right
now. Oh, I get a lot of shine. Okay.

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 Yeah,

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he took my daughter's picture and he
had to do the same advice. Mother

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signed a lot of shine

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Good now. Okay.

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Mhm. That's even we're ready for you.
Ready? Um hmm. Is it done? Okay.

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Because of the image is getting back
to my document.

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How's that for the your profile? Good.
Okay, that looks good. Okay. 123.

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So we're gonna start, Thank you so
much for coming. So we're gonna start

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interview doing your interview. And as
I mentioned, this is gonna be sort

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of a S. U. And generations and
generations will always be able to come

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back to your interview. So I want to
start off if you can state your name

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and the spelling of it and uh and then
where you were born. Thank you very

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much. And it is my pleasure to meet
you today too. My name is quick to you.

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It is, it's felt K. U E T X. And the
last name is why you go. Mhm. Mhm.

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I'm from I'm from South Sudan and I'm
from the building about cover in

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your great state South Sudan. Um
Originally anywhere

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my tribe. Hey try this. Okay so I
might try to do it. And I'm from a tribe

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plan by the name loner in october and
the longer it's like being a ST uh

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Okay thank you. Um do you know your
birth date when your date of birth? I

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know that a lot of us boys, they
didn't know their birthdays and records

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were lost. But can you tell me roughly
when do you think your birthday is

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? And by the way many of us do not
have the actual birthday and when when

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I went to school I depend on the event
that my father and mother told me

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about and then I knew the year that I
was born but I was not sure of the

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actual day that I was born. But when I
came here I had to pick a date that

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I need to remember all the time. So
that day now is my permanent but okay

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what's that? Take june six 1972

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that this is when I was going? Okay
But you remember the the season back

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home right that it was around, how do
you remember? It was true they say

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at that time you know it was like
around 1972 when the peace

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she has.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Your way It was around 1970s

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1972. Uh when the government of Sudan.

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Oh

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yes yes I know. Thank you. Okay good.
When the government of Sudan and A

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rebel in South Sudan which has been
used to sign his talking at the

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Survivor. It was whether on 1972 at
that time. And they said my father

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said you know that time when the
soldiers used to go out to Ethiopia. You

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know like because our home is like the
way to go to Ethiopia at that time.

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This is when you know I was born, you
know based on the story that my

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father told me. So I knew it was it
was somewhere between between ever and

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in life. So I picked June in the
middle. Yeah June six with my birthday.

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That sounds good. That sounds good. So
can you give me the names of your

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parents? And then how many siblings
Jihad? By the way my father, you have

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two wives. I have my wife, my mother
and I have siblings from another

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mother. And I call I call her to my
mother. My my my parent name is you do

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you why you are uh and the last name
is Dumas. You know you and your book.

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That's my father's name and then my
mother name is Yeah. Bill you can

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that's my mother's name. My you know
my mother that that I come out. I

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have another mother but I don't know
if it's water convention. Yes. Yes my

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other mother name is sansa trying to
do

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and she have she had like three
siblings. They are my best siblings and we

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understand each other. I did talk to
my, one of my brothers this morning.

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Yes yes back home and he's from my
mother from another mother that I

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considered him. My brother is my real
brother. So yeah it's a strip

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brother but we are like the same from
the same mother and the same product.

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That's how we look at each other. So
how many total brothers and sisters

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? I have a couple of for rather one
brother for a total of five brothers.

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Um two brothers from my mother and two
sisters. And then three grab it

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from the mother than another mother.
Uh Yeah. So from my birth mother I

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lost I lost the first brother that is
you know holder than me. We lost him

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through the war and tells you that and
then we lost his history to our

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only sister. So I become the oldest
one. You know. So I'm the only one

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that remained at the order from the
past mother and and my my my younger

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brother and the youngest sister until
we are like three from the best

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mother. And then you know we lost to
the older brother from the bottom of

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the second mother. We lost the second
I mean the older brother. and then

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now I have two brothers from my other
mother. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you.

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And then uh, did you, can you tell me
about your tribe? I think I think

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we mentioned a little bit about your
tribe already. So it's just

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uh, and I'm, I'm actually from the
long wear intertribal within more, but

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we are like the largest section of the
north of the new tribe, the founder

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and the inventor. They are the two
largest new setting with the trial. So

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I come from one of the largest
section. Okay, thank you. So now we're

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going to talk about growing up in your
native land in everyday life. So

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tell me about your, your memories of
growing up in your village. What was

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your village like? And how is that? Is
that stuff

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growing up in the Bill is it's it's
really fun. Uh, if I could remember

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the thing that we did our Children
when we were, we were very young it was

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going to find. So what we do is, you
know the Bill is in South Sudan. We

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do not have like development, there's
no electricity, there's no roads,

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there's no running water, there's
nothing like that. So all we do was, you

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know, we were like uh like the
cowboys, you know, so uh because our

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parents are farmer. Uh the funds for
uh how do you call it? Uh uh huh.

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They are like, you know the people
that have cut up the ranch ranchers,

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ranchers. So

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what we do as a young people, what I
remember they would, I was taking

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care of my goods and columns. You
know, you know running after them. You

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know if the other tribe boys trying to
come, you know we, we fight each

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other. You know like the boys, the boy
from the other neighborhood boy

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from my neighborhood too. We just, we
just making a a fight because we

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want to be the super, uh, you know on
top of them, that's what we do. But

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that fight, you know, it's like your
Children fight and then you know the

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whole, the people were not important
to that fight. Even if they see you

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fighting, it was just like making fun
to each other. You know, so if all

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the person come and see you fighting,
you know he would, it doesn't matter

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where they come from. They come from
the other section from here. They

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will come and separate you and say,
okay now we're not. You know, you can

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finish it. You can get the stuff, you
will start from there. And then if

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you defeat the Children from the other
community and then you know you'll

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be a super. You fraud yourself and say
now we are super, we defeat them.

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So we are good people. Yeah. So now we
can, we can uh different our

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community. Yeah, that's good. How old
were you do you remember how, how

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old were you until it is start when
when you are five years old. This is

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when you start going after the matter
you know. And uh It was there until

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until I turned 10 or 11. Okay. Did you
have a school there? Did you go to

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school? There is no school. It's okay.
And then did you? So other than the

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cattle, can you tell me a little bit
about your food? You know the food

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that you ate there? And uh like I say
our parents are like the

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Palmers um every source of you know
like everybody from my community we

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have farms. We have a small family.
You can you can you know you can

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what do you do if we do not have a
irrigation system. There's no

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subdivision system. So you have a
small farm that you're taken care of and

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you have uh you have like corn and
then you have uh

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mais you know uh those are the kind of
the crowd that we use you know for

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generation the generation you know it
just comes like every every year.

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You know you know what you've got to
cultivate into that part. You know

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every year it's just the same thing
repeating over and over again every

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year. So the food that we hit you know
it's it's from the con by the way

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that's that's what we use all the time
and and the meal from the car

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because the cartels are domain the
main resources for for my family, you

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know like if you have like many
partners Like let's say you have like five

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or you have 10 or you have 20 Then you
will be considered a weak person.

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You have 2020, 2020 and a little bit
more. You are a little richer. You

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know there are some people that have
like 50 and 100 you know and some

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people you have cutters, you have cars
and at the same time you get goats

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and you have to see uh so if you have
like many of them like that then you

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considered very well. How about your
family? What did they have to

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remember? I know my my father, my
father also it was a businessman to a

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corporate I'll hunter. So what in the
end was Daniel hunter. It was, it

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was really good you know um here
friends from the other tribe from the

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annual tribe. Then they go and hunt
for crocodile. And what he did was he

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bought most of our cultural through
the business. You know because it's a

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crocodile hunter. So what he did was
he go to Gambella Ethiopia and by

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assault a back of salt you know he
brought back of salt you know many of

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them uh in in the village. The salt is
really a different flavor because

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you know we don't use most people
don't use salt a lot. So what they use

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is the meal from the car or the meal
from the girl that's what we eat with.

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But if you get the salt you know
people who would like to steal it

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sometimes. Yeah so when other people
from the neighborhood trying to come

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and get my father talks on, he get
upset a lot with my mother and I

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remember that you know you gotta fight
with my mother because you don't

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want it to be wasted. You know keep
that song because if he if he go to

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hunt for a crocodile that he killed
one or two. So what he did with you

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put the salt on deerskin uh you know
and he took his skin he put it in a

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small how do you call it? You know
like a small boat you call it?

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We have a small canoe you know you put
it in there and he'd take it

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through the river, he took it to
Gambella and he sell it to the Ethiopian.

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The two people for food, they faded.
Uh no they wanted for shoes, they

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want they want the crocodile uh skin
for shoes and for other things that I

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don't know what they use it with. Okay
that's what you tell us you know so

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what do you buy there? He bought
medicine, you know people like medicine

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like color of pain and I think you
know uh some type of medication for for

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for headache and fever you know and
for a strong back pain and for eyes

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you know he get them and when you get
them because they are better at in

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the village. So he sells and then if
somebody gets sick you know he sell

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his medication and then you know he
can get car You know for maybe five

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and or you can you can get a good for
two or three. So that's what he used

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to do you know? And sometimes you you
know that time uh this is more a

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group of people that have guns he buy
and buy like bullets too five

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Bullets. It's equal to like one 1 1
Small book You know. Yeah that was way

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back there you know so he did that you
know and he get in business. So at

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that time we have a goodnumber