Texas 19

Listen to Texas 19, a 42-year-old woman from Irving and Mineola, Texas, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 42

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 10/08/1970

PLACE OF BIRTH: Irving, Texas

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: homemaker

EDUCATION: high school

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The speaker has never lived outside Texas.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

She grew up in Irving until age 13, when she moved to Mineola, and she has lived there since.

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RECORDED BY: Stephen Howell (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 09/04/2013

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

OK, let me tell you about the first time I really got your dad’s attention. We were in high school, he was a senior — I was a junior — and for some reason we got stuck in the same P.E. class. I was a little nervous about this ‘cause he was real athletic and I do not have an athletic bone in my body. But I thought, “I can do this; I am gonna prove to him that I can do this.” So one day the coach decided we were gonna play this game called volleyball-basketball. Kinda crazy, I know, it’s like basketball, but you play with a volleyball: You don’t dribble, you just run up and down the court and you shoot for a basket. Well of course, your dad got picked as one of the captains. And I can’t remember if he voluntarily picked me to be on his team, or if it just, I was one of the last few left and I got pushed over to his team, but, anyways, we did end up on the same team. And, uh, things were going pretty good — pretty close game — I was running up and down the court like any other player, acting like I knew what I was doing. And, um, we were down by one. And I remember: I ran, got underneath the basket, and I told myself I’m going to be the hero of this game. And I yelled your dad’s name, and I said, “I’m open, I’m open!” He threw me the ball, and all I can remember … I reached my arms out to grab this ball, and I was watching it the whole way, and right before it got to me, I closed my eyes. And that ball hit me right in the face! [laughs] It was awful. I was never so embarrassed in my life. But I didn’t cry. I just started laughing — and then everybody started laughing — and we lost the game, but I think I got his attention, ‘cause he married me and we’ve been married for almost twenty-four years, so, but I’m still not the athlete he’d like for me to be.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Stephen Howell (under supervision of David Nevell)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 09/04/2013

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