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H.:   ... how people are related to each other and how people
      are different from each other.  One thing that I have been
      wondering, we have been in Cl***** for four weeks and we
      know about four people and, you know more than that?

P.:   I know them all to see.

H.:   Do you know something about them?

P.:   I don't know them all to visit and I certainly don't know
      them all to talk to and I think it's because, mainly, I
      have five children and I have a job and I am so busy, I
      don't have time which is terrible.

H.:   It's funny, it's rather large.

P.:   The people I get to know, like you and M*** and S*** I
      always visit like we have our little coffee mornings and
      you know I'll ring them up if I can't see them, if I feel
      out of touch, I feel guilty, give them a ring, you know so
      that they know that I am still thinking about them but
      that I am not able to meet them.

S.:   Do you see S*** regularly?

P.:   I see her about twice a week.

S.:   Oh, you do, that much!

P.:   Yes, she comes down she rings me up if she is feeling like
      company or under the weather and she says 'can I come down
      and see you.'  'Yes of course'

S.:   You are extremely well thought of in the neighborhood.

P.:   With all my children, I am afraid what they think of me.
      Children up on walls and climbing

S.:   I was over to see A** K**** to take back a cookbook the
      other day and she said 'Peggy Larkin' she said 'if
      anything ever happened to me that was really serious,
      she'd be the one person I'd go to.'

P.:   Well, I hope everybody would think because even if I
      didn't know anybody, and Soan is the same, if something
      happened to them, even if we wouldn't  xxxx to them even
      in the same of calling to their house before whatever was
      going to happen, if it happened we would certainly be
      there, the two of us, to help them out.

S.:   Well, she certainly knows that.

P.:   You know, we would certainly if we... we wouldn't have
      money to give them but we would have ourselves, our
      company.

H.:   That's more important

S.:   Anyway

P.:   That's the way we feel.  We have always been like that,
      both, you know.

      Susan, this [the tea and cookies] is absolutely gorgeous.
      You are going to make me put on more weight.

S.:   I haven't yet gotten into cooking homemade things.

P.:   Have you?

S.:   No, I haven't. No, I cook fresh dinners but, with the meat
      and all that...

P.:   But you haven't gotten into home baking.

S.:   Not the scones and everything.

P.:   You have to be in the mood for it.

S.:   Not yet, I am not in the mood for it.

P.:   You have to be in the mood. Haven't you. Well, Herve
      doesn't know about that.

H.:   I am generally in the mood to eat it.

P.:   Yeah, that's right.

S.:   He wants an apple pie.

P.:   You know, when I came here to live, I didn't like it at
      all, I don't know why. I just thought, may be it's coming
      home. And then, I wouldn't leave here now because I love
      the place.

S.:   You mean when you first moved in?

P.:   Yes, oh God, it's all these new people, you know, trying
      to get everything but now I really love it here.  I love
      it because I can see my children all the time, the little
      ones I can see at the back of the house and I know that
      they are within restricted area and they don't move out of
      it. And I love it.

S.:   So, security is really important.