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LU ANN JONES:

Did you want to have more children or did you think two was enough?

TESSIE DYER:

I thought two was enough.

GEORGE DYER:

She didn't want to have no more. There's a lot to figure on raising children. Finance, that means a lot. You got good income and all that, it means. . . .

TESSIE DYER:

I just never did believe in people having children they couldn't provide for them like they should. I'm not bragging, but I do think that we did a good job on that. I really do. They tell me now that wasn't nothing that they didn't want they didn't get. That makes me feel good now.

GEORGE DYER:

We bought them good clothes and everything, had plenty good food to eat. We didn't go without a meal, had good medical attention. They didn't do without a doctor when they was sick.

LU ANN JONES:

How long would you stay out of work after you had your children?

TESSIE DYER:

I guess it was two years, something like that.

LU ANN JONES:

So you would stay with them while they were growing. . . .

TESSIE DYER:

I'd stay here with my mother.

LU ANN JONES:

She must have really had a lot on her hands when you went back to work with two little boys running around.

TESSIE DYER:

She did.

GEORGE DYER:

They mind, though.

TESSIE DYER:

My father thought there wasn't nobody like my two boys.

GEORGE DYER:

They mind, they told them anything, they done it.