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they brought Eunice along too, and she went to high school
in Santa Paula, when Dad developed Billiwack.

SL:· So they lived in Aliso Canyon, and she went to Santa Paula
High School.

SRL: Right, and that's where she met and married Harry Forbes.

SL: How old was your mother when she married?

SRL: Sixteen.

SL: Okay, the book said, "His teen-age bride" and made it sound
like something scandalous, but she was sixteen when they
married. He was at Harvard?

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SRL: He graduated e-f before theywere married. ---
SL: And they married and came straight west.

CT: And they married in Boston?

SRL: New York;· his family had been there for ....

CT: And this is post-World War I; he has been gassed, and the
doctor says, "Don't get a job in an office." How did he
decide on this part of California?

SRL: They traveled. They traveled up and down the state,
starting way up north, and visited all of the area. You
know Ventura County, the ranchers ...

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SL: Your parents married in 1923, according to my notes, and you
were saying that the ranchers in this area were easterners,
so did they know peop;le in the Santa Paula area?

SRL: Yes, we knew most of the ranchers. Every year from the time
of my earliest memories, we had open house at _Christmastime.
This was a custom for most of the ranches. We did, the
Lloyd-Butlers always had one, and some of the Shivelys
always had one, and the Thilles, and ... you know, the one
whose house is now a museum over near the Naval Base ....

CT:- Bard.

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