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Iree and Bass on their marriage.


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  audio Barbara, Pierce, Ivalene, Steve, Lonzo, Edgar, Dennie, Thelma, Neial, Pat, Becky, Ruthie, David. Of the 13 children that Iree had with her husband, she says: "We all lived in this house together at one time. Back then, there wasn't a window, and there wasn't a door on the house. There wasn't a ceiling, and there weren't hardly no partitions. Eight boys from 18 on down stayed in the one room with two beds. In the girls' room, five stayed -- there was one big bed and a little cot. And Bass and me had a little bed in our room for the babies."

 
 
 
 
 
 


 


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