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basketball one time. We Ere playing Fn Girard, and I ' 11 never forget, I
was rackmg them up. All at once som py hollered 'Rack em up!" I ms
really racking than up. That stayed with m for a long time. So I had
several nichams myself.
Q: That's interesting.
A: If you want to how about nicknames, my wife's got a book written on
nicas for her hometom and everything. It's up at Wshington, D .C.
AAUW Library. She's got a regular book on nFcha~s for her family, I
man her h t o m and everything.
Q: Your wife has that
A: Yes. She wrote that little book. 1'11 give it to you latex. She' 11
let you have that.
Q: Were nicbmes cotrmn then
A: Oh, yes. Nichmes wre really cmn, ard she's got than all. You
wldn't know wZlat they'd man, sore of them, because som of them ms in
the Croatian language, saaae of the nickmes. She's got than all down,
ad sans of the kricanized and everything else, you know.
Q: Yes. That muld be interesting. Your wife is Croatian
A: Croatian, yes. That's Yugoslav.
Q: W t . Being from the same area that your fdly came from in Europe,
hcrw did you come to met hew
A: Well, just because she lived at %it@ City and it ws only a couple
of miles away £ran there. You how how you go krm tom to tom. I met
her at a baseball dance in Sawyerville. There ws one girl giving a
party, ad actually she ms giving it for me. She wanted to be with me.
We ~ ~ to nHillsboro t Lake on this party, and I was dancing with everybody
d that's where I saw her a d started to date her.
Q: &, I see.
A : I was just having a god tiroe and I mt her, and that ' s &ere it a1 1
started.
Q: How old wre you then
A: Me
Q: Yes.
A: kt's see. I was about 28 years old. k, I wasn't that old. No, I
was about 26 or 27 years old.
Q: Okay. How old were you &en yau got raarried k