My Mom

This young community member talks about their mother's trek across the country to live in Oregon.

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Transcript

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 You're listening to StoryHelix, intertwining
 stories past, present and not yet
 
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 imagined in Lane County, Oregon.
 What's up, Earthlings? I'm Leah
 
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 Velez and Anonymous be your host. The
 stories that follow are raw footage. So
 
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 let's open up our ear nuggets and
 give these community submitted stories listen. 
 
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I think it all started back when my
 mom was born. She was born in
 
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 Louisiana, all the way across the
 country, and then she grew up.
 
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 When she was fourteen, she got
 kicked out or something and then she worked
 
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 in Louisiana for a couple of years. Got on apartmen, she's seventeen, her grandpa
 
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 gave her a ticket on the grand
 holme bus to  go to Oregon.
 
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 She lived there for about ten years
 and she had my brother and then
 
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 she came back, had him there
 and actually she worked then in Louisiana when
 
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 she came back again and she met
 my dad and she had me. I
 
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 lived Louisiana for a little bit,
 a little town, small Shreveport, Louisiana.
 
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 This is what I say. She
 wasn't coming here hoping to have kids
 
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 or not have kids. She was
 coming here hoping to move away from her
 
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 family and then when she moved here. She ended up meeting my dad and
 
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 then making her life here, and
 that's what I think she hoped for.
 
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 What I've experienced like around Oregon, it's
 pretty nice. I've lived here a long
 
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 time. I don't think I plan
 on leaving soon. Maybe one day, I don't know.
 
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 Oregon's pretty cool. Yeah, I've
 lived here my whole life, though
 
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 most of the life I remember.
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 wherever you listen to your podcasts.
 If you've got your own Lane County story
 
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 to tell, we'd love to hear
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