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I never went to any, any high-school like after-school type-thing
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But it 's in- it 's making it so that you can wrap it around meat and stuff and they 're these like circular type-things and they 're really really good. And you put s-- um well we call them, "Speragotchai," but it 's bacon-bits. And you put it on top and it tastes really good.
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well I don't know if I would call them a snoop but my my next-door neighbour, yeah I would call her a snoop but she 's, she 's somebody who somehow always knows what 's going on in the neighbourhood so yeah if if you have any questions you tend to go to her type-thing, um, my mum says she 's the block-captain, whatever that means (both laughing).
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Oh, let's see. Um, I use--- I actually I went to a social worker to talk about my relationships and stuff. Well, just like um psychological type-things and uh, with my dad, I don 't really know, I think it 's because it 's just a lot of the things, a lot of the qualities he has are things that tick me off, and it 's just everything that he does ticks me off. So it 's not cause like he 's my father I don 't like him, it 's just happens that he 's a person that has qualities that ticks me off so that 's why I don 't get along with him.
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So light was shining perfectly on it, like lime-light spotlight type-thing.
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And of course, what you would call the corner-store now, the little candy-store, smoke-shop type-thing, where- again, like I just remember it being very old inside and there was this- the ones that we went to was called Cronk's and it 's on the south side of Queen-Street.
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One day, we had a kid fall off his bike and the lifeguard came over and helped out, so. You-know, so there 's other types of first-aid-y thin-- aid-type-things.
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I expected kind-of quaint little spots and stuff and it wasn 't. It was just basic little motel-type-things all the way down the coast and that.
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I used to shine shoes actually. My father had a shoe-shine parlor and a tobacco-shop type-thing.
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But he grew up like in Forest-Hill, East-York type-thing, and my mother grew up in Montreal.
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Yeah. I mean, at the time, it was thought of as the best. Um, I think even then, it was probably living a little bit on a reputation, you- know, that was sort of long-gone type-thing. I don 't know if it' s necessarily the best anymore.
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Went to the Matador, but, you-know, I was like in my- Matador was sort-of popular when I was in my like mid-twenties type-thing.
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Yeah, it 's a great spot. And I 'm sure it was happening when I was even younger, but I didn 't really- it didn 't really become sort-of hip until I was, you-know, sort-of in the late eighties type-thing.
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Um, well there 's two beaches and then two like field-type-things but they aren 't so great for sports 'cause they 're on a slant.
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Pretty-much menial labour. I did like part-time like, delivering and going to get coffee type-thing for a law-firm.
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I think there was fifteen different drums and each group played drums while the other group danced type-thing.
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Like we must have went to native type-things up there.
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So it was like an hours- an hour walk like- twenty minute drive type-thing.
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And I studied psych and I am sort-of interested in helping people on the counseling side so I-mean if I were to do anything I'd r-- I'd try to get involved with like a- kind-of like a youth-gay-helpline type-thing. But the training never worked out with my schedule and (sighs) um if I were to do anything that really really interests me and I'd want to volunteer, help out.
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There's something beneath me th-- what I'm thinking that's present, and I can catch myself before you-know it spins out-of-control type-thing.
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