in a satisfactory way; to a considerable extent, largely.
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We- ah the identity and the need for the local involvement ah isn't there and we're ah, we're too close to- to Peterborough and we're just really a- a suburb of Peterborough with ah ah ah- and that, I'm- I'm pretty well feed- I played in an awful lot of athletics in Peterborough and in hockey and ball and was quite renowned in that. So I know all kinds. |
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It was three owners in that, and he- her husband was one. And they lived right in that little white house before you come to the church. On the right-hand side there, white. Where the little kind-of a restaurant or-something or was it beside there. So that pretty well takes care of them. |
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... she worked in the office. And of-course he- he bats it for a while on the farm when he first moved there and that's where he met her when be in getting feed you-see? So they were great surprise that she would marry a farmer. So that pretty well takes care of that I think. That part of it. |
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... and then he's going to summer school, just to get tuned up a little bit. And that pretty much takes care of them for the moment. So they get done school, they'll be going to college naturally and- and ah that pretty well takes care of them. |
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Yeah he's got a great head of hair. Yeah, yeah. So that pretty well- let me see- I can't think too much more of what ah what they done you-know. |
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Interviewer: Would you take a deer pretty much every time too? Speaker: Pretty well yeah. |
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Interviewer: So ah what's the range on the shot-gun? Speaker: Shotgun? Oh I'd say from here 'cross the highway. Pretty well you might be lucky depends what you're using, if you use slugs then that's ah um a slug is a round ball about that big ... |
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Interviewer: ... it seems like you have to do ah yard work all the time. Speaker: Oh yard-work and maintenance you-know things that you don't have to do, but oh you've got to keep the place looking good. Yup. Interviewer: And do you have any other hobbies ah that you- Speaker: That pretty well takes care of it. |
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Interviewer: ... we're pretty much good for time, unless there's anything else you'd like to add or- or ah- Speaker: Oh i think that ah pretty well does it ah Jonathan. ... No I think that pretty well covers it and we're ah we keep in pretty good health ... |
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... apparently, population of Florence is five-hundred-thousand people, however between the months of April and October, there's approximately one-point-seven-million people in the city, so there's over a million tourists in that city pretty well at all times, right? But you'd never know. |
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Interviewer: 'Cause you said you really liked elementary school. Speaker: Yeah I did. I think the school's you-know probably pretty well the same. It's you-know improved if nothing else. It's definitely not worse. |
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And ah so we've lived here ever since Holly was one and she was born in seventy-two so- yeah yeah so we've- we've pretty well like raised the kids here. John built this house, like he- he built it all by himself and ah yeah. |
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Interviewer: Do you bike with the same people? Speaker: Pretty well yeah. Interviewer: Oh okay. Speaker: Pretty well. Well we have the- our big group is a big group. There's probably- well there's probably fifty or sixty people on the list. Now they don't all come all the time and-that. |
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... like there has been tourists that want to go up and see the place and-everything. It's ripped down. It's no longer there. They ripped it down. Like they got rid of it. ... And um, all it was a little cabin in the woods. Like that's pretty well all it was. |
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'Cause they're brain washed so they won't talk. ... And nobody knew that's- like they knew something was weird. There's a bunch of girls living with- you-know pretty well one guy. |
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There was three of them, two of us. Pretty well two of them because they were all older yeah. So two of them and three then three of them. So there was ten. |
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Second year we had same deal, it was pretty well the same team. We came in runner-up and then this year coming, it's gonna be a whole different team because people work and can't come up and st-- and you-know stopped coming because they get older. |
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Um yeah and we've ah- how it has changed, we've lost our saw-mills and like where the men pretty-well all worked around like here, they didn't have to go out of town like to work. And there was ah a quarry here too. And like it's gone so yeah. |
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And ah my kids pretty well ah- like the younger ones went to the school over here. |
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Oh yeah there was the- the big fire yeah that burnt. Yeah it burned us, I forgot about that store and ah some houses yeah. But I think everybody pretty well you-know had- got somewhere else to live so. Yes. |
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