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kinds of things. And once a week with Madam Andrea for
French, and we've been known to put on little French skitsy-
type plays here, and Boo was telling me on the phone (and I
didn't remember this) she said that she was so,terrified on
the stage when she was supposed to be saying her lines, and
there were various guests here watching this thing - it
wasn't just family --that Dad got up and picked_her up and
held her and faced the audience so she could say her lines.
She said, "Oh, it was the most wonderful feeling." (Laughs)
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SL: Did he speak several languages? I would think with an
international financing family that there would be languages
bouncing around.

SRL: Yes. Of course he spoke German, and Swiss-German, which is
quite a different language actually, and French of course,
and English, is and he did pretty w wellin Italian.Before f he --
went overseas in the Second World_ War he was studying·Arabic
because his unit was attached to the British Eighth Army in
North Africa [He was killed there in '43]. But of course Mom
.didn't speak those, so it didn't work.for us-children to
pick it up; as it's worked out, my children speak Spanish -
two of them were born in Mexico but they have pursued it.
And even Barbie who was. born after we came back to the
States, she speaks Spanish well enough to teach in it.

SL: Didn't your father speak Spanish?

SRL: No, no.

SL: How did he ... oh, you said, he didn't have Mexican workers,_
he had workers from the service.

SRL: Yes, he had veterans from the service. We did have Mexican
workers, but they were not from Mexico - they'd been here
for generations. They were Piru natives who were Mexican-
Indians. I don't know if you ever saw the picture ... my
wedding pictures ... I think it's over there. The last page
of it is the families of workers who came to our wedding.
So we inherited these people; Dad inherited these
people, and they belong here, and they feel they belong here
and their descendants feel that they have a piece of Camulos
and that they belong to Camulos; they have a strong feeling.

CT: They have a very strong attachment.

SL: They have people in the cemetery, so that's a clue.

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