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“Me and Nana were baptized ­in June of 1958 and one of our friends from high school that we knew, his parents were members of the church and his mother had a sister who lived in Provo, and her husband had a mink farm. The deal that was worked out was that we could live on the farm and take care of the mink and we wouldn’t have to pay rent or anything.  And [in the house] there wasn’t even a bedroom. There was one big front room, the living room, so we had two cribs and roll out couch.

Minks are nasty little animals, they’re not friendly at all. You don’t pet them, believe me. We had big thick gloves we had to wear if you had to do anything with them so they wouldn’t bite you. There was this one time, I lost my wedding ring. I had lost so much weight over after we got married, and one time it just “whoosh” lost it in the bedding. Couldn’t find it. Maybe when they cut open a mink they found it.

The problem was that by the time we got there, we didn’t have any money. So, when I went to register, I couldn’t register because I didn’t have any money to pay, so we didn’t get into school. So we lived in the farm from September, October, into November.

Then Nana found out she was pregnant again and then her mother was going through a divorce. So we ended up going back home in November, so we were there for three months. That was 1958; I was twenty, Nana was twenty. Your dad was eight months old, so Lynnanne was a year and ten months. She as just starting to talk and she could walk.

It was actually a good deal and I think if Nana hadn’t been pregnant and then her mother with her divorce and everything and needing help… it was a good deal for us at the time.

So we came home just before Christmas of that same year.  But we never regretted it, it was a good experience.”

- Linwood Schulte, my grandfather

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