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At the boarding
school, sometimes we

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got to go out, and go downtown.

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And we used to go down to
this place called Woolworths,

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in a little, you know little,
we used to call them dime store.

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I don't think there
anything's worth--

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I don't think it
cost a dime anymore.

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But anyway, we go down to
Woolworths, and hang out there.

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This is downtown Albuquerque.

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"Woolworths."

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"Went, to Woolworths,
down at the corner

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of Fourth and Central downtown.

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Lots of skins hang out there.

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They call it the Indian Center,
the bus stops out in front.

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Billie and I roamed
among record albums,

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make-up, hairspray, sprayed
our hair platinum blonde,

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thought we'd get away from
our straight black hair.

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You know, the Joe-Babe look.

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A clerk heard the
hissing can and ordered

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us to put it back or buy it.

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She watched us with eagle eyes.

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We ducked out of there
and fled on the first bus

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back to the Indian School."

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Every time we got to go
out, we had to sign out,

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and then we came back
in, we had to sign in.

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So our lives were pretty much
regulated, just like military.

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Because after all,
these schools were

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modeled after the military,
which was perhaps intent.

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