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 I also don't have a voice. Yes. Is that? Um, you want to do that? Okay.

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 That's good.

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Okay. It's recording now. So it looks
like it has 31% power In an hour and

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45 minutes on the cart. Okay. So that
should do. Okay. So that should work

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a little bit closer to you.

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Okay.

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Okay. Great. So let's just start out.
Well, first of all I'm James James

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Garcia. Uh, you may know my wife, my
wife teaches at Arizona state West

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campus. And okay, I have a long
background journalism. So I'm just helping

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her with this project. Issue captures
some of these oral histories. Um, so

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, uh, let's start off just first of
all with your full name and spelling

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of your name. Okay. So um, my name is
a terror. I wrote. How are you? It's

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a T H E R. Well, pages usually it's
yeah, just spell it food. How you

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would write it at our last names are
Okay. And your first name and a chair.

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Yeah. Okay. And how old are you? I'm
30. 30. Yeah. Okay. Um, so let's

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just uh, we'll begin just by um, the
name that you use now. Because I know

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that sometimes some of the folks that
come as refugees to change their

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name. Is this the name you were given
at birth? Yes. The name was giving

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me a birth. Uh, except in Arabic is
just that it's a theater, you know, so

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, but in my pronunciation time is a,
you know, just basically a T E. R.

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There's no asian. Okay. But it was the
name that was given to you. Right

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, okay. Great. And where exactly were
you born? I was born in, throughout

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which is, It's in the seven. I don't
know much about lot about stop. As I

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actually as I got older I started
learning a little bit about South

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southern because I was I was I spent
all my life up north in the north of

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the north for dad and then Egypt. You
know that's where I actually grew up

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in here. Okay. Okay. See you later in
Egypt. So now you were and how old

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did you say? I'm 30? 30. Okay. Now do
you know your parents? Do you know

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the names of your parents? So my dad
is, his name is a rope ring duke. And

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my mother is Yaron. Yeah. Why are.
Okay? Could you spell both of their

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names? So a rope is a R. O. P june
business. Last name is J. U. K. Long is

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A L. A N. G. Yeah. So that's your,
that's your father's lost. My father's

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your mother's name? My mother's Yar.
Y. A. R. Her last name is Ring R. I.

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N. G. Okay. Um now are your parents uh
here in the States? So they still

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live back in the Sudan. Well,
unfortunately my father passed when I was a

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kid. Uh

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Fire is also the movie. Uh My mother
still lived and your dad, she was in

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north because she's been a city
throughout her life. She was in North and

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didn't move back this up until uh
after the peace which is I believe he

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went back the first time because

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yeah finally was able to move back

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three years ago. So now she's resigned
in the southern part of Sudan.

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She's now living in. Okay great.

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And what about brothers and sisters?
Do you have brothers and sisters? I

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have a younger younger brother with me
today. And then I am assembling

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younger siblings. I have

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I have three sisters and another
brother back My three Sisters and another

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brother back home was your mother. But
you have a younger brother who

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lives here. Yeah I have a brother with
me. So okay well what is his name?

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His name is a book A G. E. K. Okay
same last name they are now. But even

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though you grew up, you said a lot of
the north and then later in Egypt

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that your family was from South Sudan.
Yes. My father and my mother both

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from south. Yeah my father at the time
was he was he went to school you

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know in North and then later on he
moved to England because his sister

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older sister was actually in England
for school there and her husband was

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actually when the snow is still United
at the time he was ambassador to

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England Utopia. So he should travel
that used to travel with him. I got

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arrested. Okay so my father actually
was stationed as a border patrol at

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the time and he was working and wow.
And that's where you know, I believe

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as a kid, I have still have a life
back memory uh to where we'll go to the

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south where my dad was agent at. And
he had there was kind of like a

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farming land which I believe it was
here was peanuts. So that my mother

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used to work there on the field
extended. Okay.

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And so hold on, hold on. Just what's
that test?

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Never. All right, sure.

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Yes. Should pick it up, but asked
like, okay.

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I mean, I definitely I'm getting the
image recording.

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Let's see. Yeah,

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yeah.

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Yeah, that's something you don't want
the bar.

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I tried to do that. I wouldn't be able
to

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because I say I am bilingual, you know
too. Is that? Yeah, it means you

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Yeah, you did you study in spanish
high school day? I was I have to take a

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second language, but I took french uh
in high school. But then I realized

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later on I should have but I want to
always learn spanish. So yeah. Yeah.

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So, I kind of picked up because I have
a lot of spanish friends. Okay,

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Okay. High school place at her. Yeah.
Where did you go to high school? I

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went to Washington Washington high
school. That's right on productor.

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Mhm.

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Yeah. Uh huh. Mhm. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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How tomake