Missouri 12

Listen to Missouri 12, a 27-year-old woman from Odessa, Missouri, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 27

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1974

PLACE OF BIRTH: Lexington, Missouri

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: N/A

EDUCATION: N/A

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject was raised in Odessa, Missouri.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Louis Colaianni

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 16/03/2001

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TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

And I was born in Lexington, Missouri, which is about thirty miles from where we actually lived in Odessa, Missouri. And there was no hospital in Odessa, so when my mother went into labor, they had to drive for thirty miles, and my mom had already had, well I’m the youngest of six kids, so I was the last of the Mohicans, and so by the time she got to the hospital she was exhausted after having to take care of all the other kids all day, so they ended up having to, uh, stop her labor while she was pregnant with me, while she was having me and, uh, let her rest because she couldn’t do it. She was too tired and, uh, so I took her two days in labor to get me out. I was stubborn. I didn’t want to come out. And so, uh, I was the only baby born in the hospital at the time, so I was very spoiled and, uh, there wasn’t another baby for, oh, two days after I was born.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Phil Hubbard

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 06/07/2008

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