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I: To write about. what do you how did you come about starting

 your column?

S: Just messing around. Bruce said he needed some fillers when ^

 first started.
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I;: Bruce is the editor of the Carolina Indian #Bae -Bruce Barton?

S: Yeah, that's my big brother.

I: I see.

S: And he needed some fillers so I offered my services and I ended:

 up like this.

I: Well, you always liked to read books of iaeiur.. encyclopedias and

 things like that, didn't you?

S: Yeah.

I: Tell us about that time you told me about being in the library and

 when you were really small.

S: About when I was in the fifth, sixth grade I went to the college

 library ankad to. A esing around, A nothing

 and I seen this hook of how the atomic bomb works so I got it. It

 was about as big as I was and ge I sat down. I could feel about

 twenty eyes staring right on me. I got out of that place.

I: They thought that was a little unusua1iomebody of your age to be

 interested in something danced, I guess, right?

S: I guess everybody thinks I'm a little shrimp. Most people think

 I'm about in the fifth grade. I'm in the eighth.

I: I s that because you're small in size, you dink?

S: Yeah.

I: How tall are you?